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There’s a Kanye West song playing, the one with the Curtis Mayfield sample.
"Touch The Sky" from the 2005 album Late Registration. The first line of the song is literally: " Gotta testify, come up in the spot looking super fly." Rooney literally just xescribed what everyonr in the club was wearing. Someone just made fun of Marianne's outfit, and this is clearly one of the first times she has tried to look good. Kanye sas in the song: "I just wanted to shine!"
“It was culture as class performance, literature fetishised for its ability to take educated people on false emotional journeys, so that they might afterwards feel superior to the uneducated people whose emotional journeys they liked to read about.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“Americans are getting stronger. Twenty years ago, it took two people to carry ten dollars’ worth of groceries. Today, a five-year-old can do it. —Henny Youngman”
― The Intelligent Investor
― The Intelligent Investor
“You live through certain things before you understand them. You can’t always take the analytical position.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
“Gradually the waiting began to feel less like waiting and more like this was simply what life was: the distracting tasks undertaken while the thing you are waiting for continues not to happen.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
“Still, Connell went home that night and read over some notes he had been making for a new story, and he felt the old beat of pleasure in his body, like watching a perfect goal, like the rustling movement of light through leaves, a phrase of music from the window of a passing car. Life offers up these moments of joy despite everything.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
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This is an off-shoot for the in-person New & Noteworthy book club. We do meet in person monthly every fourth Thursday at BookPeople in Austin, Texas. ...more
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