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That audience had run to beards and magenta shirts and original ways of arranging its neckwear; and not content with the ravages produced in its over-excitable nervous system by the remorseless workings of its critical intelligence, it had sat through a film of Japanese life called ‘Yěs’, made by a Norwegian film company in 1915 with Japanese actors, which lasted an hour and three-quarters and contained…
— Jul 09, 2026 10:56PM
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‘Yes, it’s going to be dam’ good, said Mr Mybug. It’s a psychological study, of course, and I’ve got a lot of new matter, including three letters he wrote to an old aunt in Ireland, Mrs Prunty, during the period when he was working on “Wuthering Heights”.’
He glanced sharply at Flora to see if she would react…
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— Jul 10, 2026 03:28PM
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Noel
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Hahaha she actually does it. (She said she was going to mark “what she considers the finer passages” with one, two, or three stars.) She does it at the very beginning of this chapter and again at this sentence: “*** Growing with the viscuous light that was invading the sky, there came the solemn, tortured-snake voice of the sea, two miles away, falling in sharp folds upon the mirror-expanses of the beach.”
— Jul 07, 2026 01:44PM
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And it is only because I have in mind all those thousands of persons not unlike myself, who work in the vulgar and meaningless bustle of offices, shops and homes, and who are not always sure whether a sentence is Literature or whether it is just sheer flapdoodle, that I have adopted the method perfected by the late Herr Baedeker, and firmly marked what I consider the finer passages with one, two or three stars. In…
— Jul 05, 2026 11:48AM
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(I’ve already been reading this for too long. I think I’ll try to finish it before work tomorrow, although that might be ambitious. Lately I’ve been so down that I can barely read anything. But this book makes my heart a bit lighter.)
All round her (Flora pensively recalled) people were muttering how lovely were its rhythmic patterns and what an exciting quality it had and how abstract was its formal decorative shaping.