Fiona’s Reviews > The Shining > Status Update

"He was speaking with a country man, and he knew that all country men feel a similar need to approach their business obliquely, to smell around its corners and sides before plunging into the middle of dealing."

Jack's temporal hallucination sense mashup reminds me of the dance scene across time/place in Sinners.

"She had no goddam right! Yes, maybe at first. He had been a lush, he had done terrible things. Breaking Danny’s arm had been a terrible thing. But if a man reforms, doesn’t he deserve to have his reformation credited sooner or later? And if he doesn’t get it, doesn’t he deserve the game to go with the name?"

"When you unwittingly stuck your hand into the wasps’ nest, you hadn’t made a covenant with the devil to give up your civilized self with its trappings of love and respect and honor. It just happened to you. Passively, with no say, you ceased to be a creature of the mind and became a creature of the nerve endings; from college-educated man to wailing ape in five easy seconds."