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"I slide these sheets between the sheets of G & I and wonder when I'll run out of history to hide in, or if I'll be forced to double the center of the sandwich with another layer of ham" (495).
— Jan 21, 2018 06:54AM
Chris Via
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A variation on Heraclitus' panta rei: "We can't turn back for a second look because no one gets a look at the same thing twice..." (358).
— Jan 16, 2018 04:46AM
Chris Via
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"...the study of history is the study of language..." (271).
— Jan 12, 2018 10:01AM
Chris Via
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These scenes of domestic quarreling are rendering so sharply that I find myself squirming uncomfortably in my chair (life in a chair)!
— Jan 09, 2018 12:12PM
Chris Via
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"Perhaps my long German book was an exterior, a façade, for which I am now constructing an interior" (95).
— Jan 06, 2018 11:19AM
Chris Via
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Gass has the power to work language into fits and explosions!
“It is that speak of life you sometimes see from a plane, starleak in the darkness (13). “...a dinky Dixie cup, each cup rewashed at the outdoor tap until it was flimpy and buckled in the hand the way the day did” (28). “Plan lacquered his eeee’s. You could set a drink down and not ring them” (44).
— Jan 02, 2018 03:23PM
“It is that speak of life you sometimes see from a plane, starleak in the darkness (13). “...a dinky Dixie cup, each cup rewashed at the outdoor tap until it was flimpy and buckled in the hand the way the day did” (28). “Plan lacquered his eeee’s. You could set a drink down and not ring them” (44).
