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Props in Providence
Providence Journal gives The White Devil props!
http://artsblog.projo.com/2011/06/new-thrillers-cover-history-and-ter.html
"The White Devil" (Harper Collins, 368 pages, $24.99) Justin Evans' daring tale of an American ne'er-do-well teenager adrift in the famed English boarding school Harrow, reads like "A Separate Peace" with murder thrown into the mix.
The mystery behind that involves none other
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“dream interpretation were ways of converting our little personal miseries into big robust myths”
― A Good and Happy Child
― A Good and Happy Child
“Festina lente. You know what that means?"
Hurry slowly."
Bene." He smiled.
-A Good & Happy Child”
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Hurry slowly."
Bene." He smiled.
-A Good & Happy Child”
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“[...] and I said to myself: Aha. George used to have a way of coping."
"When?" I said, confused. "You mean, when I was a kid?"
"Have you ever heard," you said, "of the idea of the shadow self?"
Sure, I told you. It was one of the Jungian archetypes—one of the symbols of the collective unconscious. That was pretty much all I remembered from college.
"Not bad. Do you know what function it plays, in analysis?" you asked. I shook my head. You continued. "The shadow is a frequent figure in dreams. It can appear as a kind of doppelgänger; an evil twin. It embodies our repressed desires. The dark stuff. The shameful stuff. The you-want-to-fuck-your-mother stuff." (48)”
― A Good and Happy Child
"When?" I said, confused. "You mean, when I was a kid?"
"Have you ever heard," you said, "of the idea of the shadow self?"
Sure, I told you. It was one of the Jungian archetypes—one of the symbols of the collective unconscious. That was pretty much all I remembered from college.
"Not bad. Do you know what function it plays, in analysis?" you asked. I shook my head. You continued. "The shadow is a frequent figure in dreams. It can appear as a kind of doppelgänger; an evil twin. It embodies our repressed desires. The dark stuff. The shameful stuff. The you-want-to-fuck-your-mother stuff." (48)”
― A Good and Happy Child
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