Catchik’s Reviews > The Talented Mr Ripley > Status Update

‘[He walked] past windows glittering with jewelled boxes that spilled out necklaces and rings like the boxes Tom had always imagined that treasures spilled out in fairy tales. He liked the fact that Venice had no cars. It made the city human. The streets were like veins, he thought, and the people were the blood, circulating everywhere.’ So interesting how Tom (not “Dickie”) sees the world so beautifully here

‘Anticipation! It occurred to him that his anticipation was more pleasant to him than his experiencing.’ — I find it so interesting how Tom seems to revel in neither being Tom nor ever entirely ‘experiencing’ Dickie; always in this liminal state of ‘anticipation’ .. and that anticipation is only bolstered by his artful evasions that he describes as a kind of ‘game’