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Geral(dine)
is on page 176 of 288
finished: 11) Blindman's Buff
Page 170 - last ditch effort
"Within me a sadness had given way to hopelessness, when faith has evaporated and the imagination is dead, when life seems to have come finally and irrevocably to a standstill. (.....)"
— Dec 28, 2025 03:46AM
Page 170 - last ditch effort
"Within me a sadness had given way to hopelessness, when faith has evaporated and the imagination is dead, when life seems to have come finally and irrevocably to a standstill. (.....)"
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Geral(dine)
is on page 284 of 288
finished: 20) Unambiguous Events
The escaped siblings returning home
Page 278
"Nothing had changed except myself."
Pages 281+282
"But she re-entered reality a different person from the one who had left."
— Dec 28, 2025 07:59AM
The escaped siblings returning home
Page 278
"Nothing had changed except myself."
Pages 281+282
"But she re-entered reality a different person from the one who had left."
Geral(dine)
is on page 277 of 288
finished: 18) Elsinore, 1953 (Pages 250-272)
finished: 19) The Lock on the Metro Door
Page 262 - Mother's Letters
"Thousands of miles away from her, I discovered she unconsciously accepted her limitations, confining her written statements to a level of almost childish simplicity. She stated facts, nothing more. Her letters were peculiarly dead - dead with all the outward signs of life, like stillborn infants."
— Dec 28, 2025 07:43AM
finished: 19) The Lock on the Metro Door
Page 262 - Mother's Letters
"Thousands of miles away from her, I discovered she unconsciously accepted her limitations, confining her written statements to a level of almost childish simplicity. She stated facts, nothing more. Her letters were peculiarly dead - dead with all the outward signs of life, like stillborn infants."
Geral(dine)
is on page 249 of 288
finished: 17) Going to Sea
Page 248 - trying to speak French & coming to a debatable conclusion >:)
"They laughed and didn't look up again. I moved away, filled with mysterious shame. But I'd found out what I wanted to know. French, which I'd failed three times in high school, was in fact a real language, spoken by real people. Europe existed."
— Dec 28, 2025 06:53AM
Page 248 - trying to speak French & coming to a debatable conclusion >:)
"They laughed and didn't look up again. I moved away, filled with mysterious shame. But I'd found out what I wanted to know. French, which I'd failed three times in high school, was in fact a real language, spoken by real people. Europe existed."
Geral(dine)
is on page 230 of 288
Page 230
"I read very fast, uncritically, and without retention, seeking only to escape from my own life through the imaginative plunge into another(...) It was around this time that I first thought of becoming a writer. In a cheap novel the hero was asked his profession at a cocktail party. "I'm a novelist" he said, and I remember putting the book down and thinking, my God what a beautiful thing to be able to say."
— Dec 28, 2025 06:15AM
"I read very fast, uncritically, and without retention, seeking only to escape from my own life through the imaginative plunge into another(...) It was around this time that I first thought of becoming a writer. In a cheap novel the hero was asked his profession at a cocktail party. "I'm a novelist" he said, and I remember putting the book down and thinking, my God what a beautiful thing to be able to say."
Geral(dine)
is on page 200 of 288
finished: 13) Death by Itself
Page 200
"On the street, out of nowhere, desire swept me away. I wanted to live. I wanted to see something beautiful. Or to die. Anything definite, anything clear, visible and tangible, like dying, or saving someone's life, or being kissed by Jean Simmons."
— Dec 28, 2025 04:40AM
Page 200
"On the street, out of nowhere, desire swept me away. I wanted to live. I wanted to see something beautiful. Or to die. Anything definite, anything clear, visible and tangible, like dying, or saving someone's life, or being kissed by Jean Simmons."
Geral(dine)
is on page 194 of 288
finished: 12) Nights Away from Home
Page 186 - for the baby
"(...) Jessica was the only complete and uncomplicated love in my life, (....) that it was love and not lack of courage, forcing me to capitulate. Thus works the mind of a child, always a bit behind the world, swamped with emotion, and innocent of its own cunning."
— Dec 28, 2025 04:24AM
Page 186 - for the baby
"(...) Jessica was the only complete and uncomplicated love in my life, (....) that it was love and not lack of courage, forcing me to capitulate. Thus works the mind of a child, always a bit behind the world, swamped with emotion, and innocent of its own cunning."
Geral(dine)
is on page 167 of 288
Quotes - About Jean (the born yapper :D)
Page 167
"For an oral maniac the chance to pour word-magic into fresh and captive ears satisfies a need as deep as sex. His delight in himself was reborn."
(...)
He was always above his work, the secret possessor of an inner wealth untouched by the world --- his image of himself."
— Dec 28, 2025 03:42AM
Page 167
"For an oral maniac the chance to pour word-magic into fresh and captive ears satisfies a need as deep as sex. His delight in himself was reborn."
(...)
He was always above his work, the secret possessor of an inner wealth untouched by the world --- his image of himself."
