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Some of the lay-out got mixed up and again this seems like an exercise of trying to describe things fleetingly, as if it were an experimental movie, but I simply don't get it. Is this a jab at being called the Salinger of her generation? Do we need color coding to understand everything, and if so, why are the few external references always the landscape?
Also, more Joyce references (The Lass of Aughrim).
— Sep 17, 2021 05:11PM
Also, more Joyce references (The Lass of Aughrim).
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Tom
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Had to pause sometimes because Alice's chapter was heartbreaking. Still, I love her clarity of thought, even when she's sad or angry she doesn't let those things rule her mind.
I got confused in Eileen's chapter (19) because stream-of-consciousness prose was introduced, which only made sense when we got back to where it originally started - like how a character daydreams in movies, but then everyone simultaneously.
— Sep 16, 2021 06:25PM
I got confused in Eileen's chapter (19) because stream-of-consciousness prose was introduced, which only made sense when we got back to where it originally started - like how a character daydreams in movies, but then everyone simultaneously.
Tom
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Prostrate (think: soumission)
Indignation (anger and disgust, a particular kind of shame, that rises out of social conditions)
Chapter 14 is golden on explaining forgiveness.
Chapter 15 feels like a wonderful short story in itself. (+ To The Lighthouse: Time Passes)
— Sep 13, 2021 01:00PM
Indignation (anger and disgust, a particular kind of shame, that rises out of social conditions)
Chapter 14 is golden on explaining forgiveness.
Chapter 15 feels like a wonderful short story in itself. (+ To The Lighthouse: Time Passes)
Tom
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Chapter 10 felt like reading Sally's diary, telling me to stop reading this book as if it were her actual diary!
Thought it was really cool they attended mass in Chapter 11.
Eileen is starting to get on my nerves, even though she's become self-aware. Everything she comes up with is definitely autobiographical, in an ostentatious manner. Is it to impress Alice, or is her life simply that dull?
— Sep 12, 2021 04:13PM
Thought it was really cool they attended mass in Chapter 11.
Eileen is starting to get on my nerves, even though she's become self-aware. Everything she comes up with is definitely autobiographical, in an ostentatious manner. Is it to impress Alice, or is her life simply that dull?
Tom
is on page 78 of 356
Prosodic
Histrionic
Some self-indulgent banter on plastics ruining our sense of beauty and trying to resolve political movements like BLM with the typical slave-master morality. Granted, the character is feeling down and depressed from being on the internet, but this is just a rant. Extra points for realism? Or definite cringe? Definitely takes balls to leave this kind of stuff in.
— Sep 11, 2021 04:30PM
Histrionic
Some self-indulgent banter on plastics ruining our sense of beauty and trying to resolve political movements like BLM with the typical slave-master morality. Granted, the character is feeling down and depressed from being on the internet, but this is just a rant. Extra points for realism? Or definite cringe? Definitely takes balls to leave this kind of stuff in.
Tom
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References to Woolf (To The Lighthouse), historicism but also how resentfulness towards parents often grows from minor gestures (Baron In The Trees). Abstraction of personal crisis into a greater narrative (narration-emails).
Q: Bronze Age collapse
English is definitely better bc of casual language, whereas Dutch translationfelt stiff and pretentious.
— Sep 10, 2021 11:50AM
Q: Bronze Age collapse
English is definitely better bc of casual language, whereas Dutch translationfelt stiff and pretentious.
