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The Secret History

by Donna Tartt

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read in November 2023

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monica said: " What is there to say that hasn't already been said? When I read this in high school, I thought it was a great book. On second look, it is evidently the Best English Book Ever Written™. ...more "

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“I suppose at one time in my life I might have had any number of stories, but now there is no other. This is the only story I will ever be able to tell.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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“Frodo: I can't recall the taste of food, nor the sound of water, nor the touch of grass. I'm naked in the dark. There's nothing--no veil between me and the wheel of fire. I can see him with my waking eyes.

Sam: Then let us be rid of it, once and for all. I can't carry the ring for you, but I can carry you! Comeon!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: frodo, j-r-r-tolkien, return-of-the-king, sam, the-lord-of-the-rings

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“Lampreys think very lamprey-like thoughts. About lamprey-like topics in a context that’s very lamprey-like. There are no words for those thoughts. They belong to the world of water. It’s like when we were in the womb. We were thinking things in there, but we can’t express those thoughts in the language we use out here. Right?”
― Haruki Murakami, Hombres sin mujeres

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“Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

tags: francis-abernathy, the-secret-history

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“The wise speak only of what they know, Gríma son of Gálmód. A witless worm have you become. Therefore be silent, and keep your forked tongue behind your teeth. I have not passed through fire and death to bandy words with a serving-man till the lightning falls.' There was a roll of thunder. The sunlight became blotted out from the eastern windows; the whole hall became suddenly dark as night. The fire faded to sullen embers. Only Gandalf could be seen, standing white and tall before the blackened hearth.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

tags: fire-and-death, galmod, gandalf, grima, snake

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