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Maeve
Maeve is on page 154 of 259 of Almond
“That’s what practice can offer - miracles and also limitations.”
Feb 02, 2023 05:51AM Add a comment
Almond

Maeve
Maeve is on page 83 of 89 of The Fire Next Time
“It is entirely unacceptable that I should have no voice in the political affairs if my own country, for I am not a ward of America; I am one of the first Americans to arrive on these shores.”
Jan 22, 2023 08:19AM Add a comment
The Fire Next Time

Maeve
Maeve is on page 76 of 89 of The Fire Next Time
“People are perpetually attempting to find their feet on the shifting sands of status.”
Jan 22, 2023 06:53AM Add a comment
The Fire Next Time

Maeve
Maeve is on page 75 of 89 of The Fire Next Time
“It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be.”
Jan 22, 2023 06:46AM Add a comment
The Fire Next Time

Maeve
Maeve is on page 52 of 89 of The Fire Next Time
“You must consider what happens to this citizen, after all he has endured, when he returns - home: search, in his shoes, for a job, for a place to live; ride, in his skin, on segregated buses; see, with his eyes, the signs saying ‘White’ and ‘Coloured’, and especially the signs that say ‘White Ladies’ and ‘Coloured Women’ […]”
Jan 21, 2023 11:33AM Add a comment
The Fire Next Time

Maeve
Maeve is on page 185 of 186 of Stupeur et tremblements
“Il n’était pas donné à tout le monde de dominer la ville du haut du quarante-quatrième étage.”
Jan 19, 2023 07:49AM Add a comment
Stupeur et tremblements

Maeve
Maeve is on page 45 of 89 of The Fire Next Time
“Priests and nuns and school-teachers helped to protect and sanctify the power that was so ruthlessly being used by people who were indeed seeking a city, but not one in the heavens, and one to be made, very definitely, by captive hands.”
Jan 18, 2023 01:56PM Add a comment
The Fire Next Time

Maeve
Maeve is on page 40 of 89 of The Fire Next Time
“I really mean that there was no love in the church. It was a mask for hatred and self-hatred and despair. The transfiguring power of the Holy Ghost ended when the service ended, and salvation stopped at the church door.”
Jan 18, 2023 07:50AM Add a comment
The Fire Next Time

Maeve
Maeve is on page 537 of 546 of Babel: An Arcane History
“But who, in living history, ever understands their part in the tapestry?”
Jan 14, 2023 08:21AM Add a comment
Babel: An Arcane History

Maeve
Maeve is on page 535 of 546 of Babel: An Arcane History
“There was no innate, perfectly comprehensible language; there was no candidate, not English, not French, that could bully and absorb enough to become one. Language was just difference. A thousand different ways of seeing, of moving through the world. No; a thousand worlds within one. And translation - a necessary endeavour, however futile, to move between them.”
Jan 14, 2023 08:20AM Add a comment
Babel: An Arcane History

Maeve
Maeve is on page 453 of 546 of Babel: An Arcane History
“The obstacle was not the struggle, but the failure to imagine it was possible at all, the compulsion to cling to the safe, the survivable status quo.”
Jan 13, 2023 03:24PM Add a comment
Babel: An Arcane History

Maeve
Maeve is on page 432 of 546 of Babel: An Arcane History
“Power did not lie in the tip of a pen. Power did not work against its own interests. Power could only be brought to heel by acts of defiance it could not ignore. With brute, unflinching force. With violence.”
Jan 13, 2023 01:42PM Add a comment
Babel: An Arcane History

Maeve
Maeve is on page 431 of 546 of Babel: An Arcane History
“It still looked like a city carved out of the past […] Its buildings were still so reassuringly heavy, solid, ancient and eternal. The lights that shone through arched windows still promised warmth, old books, and hot tea within; still suggested an idyllic scholar’s life, where ideas were abstract entertainment that could be bandied about without consequences.”
Jan 13, 2023 01:41PM Add a comment
Babel: An Arcane History

Maeve
Maeve is on page 102 of 186 of Stupeur et tremblements
« [L’homme] possède l’un des droits humains les plus fondamentaux : celui de rêver, d’espérer. »
Jan 11, 2023 07:49AM Add a comment
Stupeur et tremblements

Maeve
Maeve is on page 96 of 186 of Stupeur et tremblements
« Tu as pour devoir d’être belle. Si tu y parviens, ta beauté ne te vaudra aucune volupté. […] Si tu admires ta propre joliesse dans le miroir, que ce soit dans la peur et non dans le plaisir: car ta beauté ne t’apportera rien d’autre que la terreur de la perdre. Si tu es une belle fille, tu ne seras pas grand-chose; si tu n’es pas une belle fille, tu seras moins que rien. »
Jan 11, 2023 06:13AM Add a comment
Stupeur et tremblements

Maeve
Maeve is on page 329 of 546 of Babel: An Arcane History
“They were speaking not in terms of ethics, but of logistics, and this made Robin feel as if they’d stepped into an upside-down world where nothing made sense, and no one had a single problem with it but him.”
Jan 09, 2023 07:41AM Add a comment
Babel: An Arcane History

Maeve
Maeve is on page 255 of 546 of Babel: An Arcane History
“But the future, vague as it was frightening, was easily ignored for now; it paled so against the brilliance of the present.”
Jan 08, 2023 05:49AM Add a comment
Babel: An Arcane History

Maeve
Maeve is on page 225 of 546 of Babel: An Arcane History
“You’ve made at least twelve errors on this page, and your sentences are far too long —“
“They’re not long; they’re Ciceronian.”
“You can’t just excuse all bad writing on the grounds that it’s Ciceronian —“

- me with Ciceronian sentences, poetic license and the Oxford comma XD
Jan 07, 2023 05:11AM Add a comment
Babel: An Arcane History

Maeve
Maeve is on page 196 of 546 of Babel: An Arcane History
“Well, it’s a particular kind of mental state. You do speak the words, but more importantly, tou hold two meanings in your head at once. You exist in both linguistic worlds simultaneously, and you imagine traversing them.”
Jan 07, 2023 05:09AM Add a comment
Babel: An Arcane History

Maeve
Maeve is on page 167 of 546 of Babel: An Arcane History
“English did not just borrow words from other languages; it was stuffed to the brim with foreign influences, a Frankenstein vernacular.”
Jan 04, 2023 09:40AM Add a comment
Babel: An Arcane History

Maeve
Maeve is on page 153 of 546 of Babel: An Arcane History
“But what is the opposite of fidelity? […] Betrayal. Translation means doing violence upon the original, means warping and distorting it for foreign, unintended eyes. So then where does that leave us? How can we conclude, except by acknowledging that an act of translation is then necessarily always an act of betrayal?”
Jan 04, 2023 06:34AM Add a comment
Babel: An Arcane History

Maeve
Maeve is on page 62 of 546 of Babel: An Arcane History
“‘Heimlich.’ German for the secret and clandestine, which is how I’ll translate it to English. But ‘heimlich’ means more than just secrets. We derive ‘heimlich’ from a Proto-Germanic word that means “home”. Put together this constellation of meaning, and what do you get? Something like the secret, private feeling you get from being somewhere you belong, secluded from the outside world.”
Jan 03, 2023 09:48AM Add a comment
Babel: An Arcane History

Maeve
Maeve is on page 62 of 546 of Babel: An Arcane History
“At night, the moon conspired with streetlamps to bathe the city in a faint, otherworldly glow. The cobblestones beneath their feet seemed like roads leading into and out of different centuries. This could be the Oxford of the Reformation, or the Oxford of the Middle Ages. They moved within a timeless space, shared by the ghosts of scholars past.”
Jan 02, 2023 05:00AM Add a comment
Babel: An Arcane History

Maeve
Maeve is on page 113 of 114 of La place
« Tout le temps que j’ai écrit, je corrigeais aussi des devoirs, je fournissais des modèles de dissertation, parce que je suis payée pour cela. Ce jeu des idées me causait la même impression que le luxe, sentiment d’irréalité, envie de pleurer. »
Dec 30, 2022 08:40AM Add a comment
La place

Maeve
Maeve is on page 98 of 114 of La place
« On évoquait les gens du quartier, mariés, morts, partis de Y… Je décrivais l’appartement, le secrétaire Louis-Philippe, les fauteuils de velours rouge, la chaîne hi-fi.
Très vite, il n’écoutait plus. »
Dec 30, 2022 08:05AM Add a comment
La place

Maeve
Maeve is on page 96 of 114 of La place
« Ma mère écrivait, vous pourriez venir vous reposer à la maison, n’osant pas dire de venir les voir pour eux-mêmes. J’y allais seule, taisant les vraies raisons de l’indifférence de leur gendre, raisons indicibles, entre lui et moi, et que j’ai admises comme allant de soi. »
Dec 30, 2022 08:03AM Add a comment
La place

Maeve
Maeve is on page 45 of 114 of La place
« Dans un ensemble de faits et de choix, j’ai l’impression de perdre au fur et à mesure la figure particulière de mon père. »
Dec 29, 2022 08:11AM Add a comment
La place

Maeve
Maeve is on page 26 of 114 of La place
« Chaque fois qu’on m’a parlé de lui, cela commençait par « il ne savait ni lire ni écrire », comme si sa vie et son caractère ne se comprenaient pas sans cette donnée initiale »
Dec 28, 2022 05:23PM Add a comment
La place

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