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The more I read, the more I seem to enjoy it.

An easy 5.

Calling them peckers carrots and radishes took me by surprise.

Digging this more than Emily Wilson’s translation of The Iliad.

I’ll move to that one after this.

Let the record state I started these classic readings before Nolan but after Giamatti.

Barely begun but already smitten with Hardy.

"A prestige ad is a thing on which store owners spend money, sorrowfully, because other store owners spend money on "prestige" ads, sorrowfully."

Brought to mind movie studios and their prestige films.

They gave this 1929 book a makeover and stuck it right in the main display section of Barnes and Noble.

Reading this in concurrence with Pineapple Street is giving me a nice double look at the lives of the NY elite.

Still snowing. Still reading this book.

Overcast weekday morning spent in bed reading a book. Creating a life for myself.

Bernanke is coming off very poorly. Courage to act, my ass.

Am I highlighting every single line? You bet!

“You don’t even nod at her. Sometimes when you eat too much at lunch you need to be cruel to a salesgirl.”

“He had worked so hard to feed himself and his family, for the love of God, believing it would earn him a seat in heaven. Now he knew he had been working, in fact, to make heaven on Earth for the lord above.”

How revolutions begin.

“group dinners were the one time these rapacious capitalists embraced socialism.”

All for protagonists picking up side gigs as uber drivers.

The shadow of the ex-president looms unnecessarily over this work.

Man's a Malthusian. This Malthusian mumbo-jumbo came up in Poor Things too. Pity.

“If someone won’t shut up during a movie, they should be shot, and as often as possible. My only amendment would be that the shooter use a silencer; that way the rest of us won’t be distracted.”

“Tell tell tell your Bell Bell Bell.”

Be ye a loose-fish or a fast-fish?

“The last time I saw him, two years before his death, he took the Metro-North into the city and we saw a matinee of the newest Aronofsky. ”

Mention films to get a shout-out.

“Doesn’t the devil live for ever; who ever heard that the devil was dead? Did you ever see any parson a wearing mourning for the devil?”

“At home I wasn’t allowed to touch the walls. Whenever I was angry at my parents, I would make a furious face and covertly press my palms against our cream walls, leaving prints that might not be discovered for years but would surely cause pain when they were.”

“What kind of a girl wants to be a sun over a country she doesn’t even want to visit.”

Now that's a line.

“the fact that you’d think most men would gladly share a steamy bathroom with Myrna Loy”