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Carlos
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“Your protagonist always has to be someone real, with real work-in-the-world…otherwise you fall into solipsism, narcissism, tedium, lack of appeal-to-the-common-reader; who knew what other perils.” (4)
“Feingold did not have a ‘philosophical’ mind. What he liked was event.” (7)
“If there had been a camera at the Crucifixion Christianity would collapse…Cruelty came out of the imagination..” (14)
— Oct 07, 2024 05:34PM
“Feingold did not have a ‘philosophical’ mind. What he liked was event.” (7)
“If there had been a camera at the Crucifixion Christianity would collapse…Cruelty came out of the imagination..” (14)
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Carlos
is on page 75 of 158
No notable lines this entry—I am chewing through this book.
— Oct 19, 2024 10:49AM
Carlos
is on page 65 of 158
“The dreams that rise up from couch and armchair mix and braid in the air…”
“I have no patience with figures of speech.” (61)
“Genius summons up not grotesqueries but verisimilitudes: the lifelike, the anti-magical.” (62)
“Nature does not stop to suspect itself of daily subterfuge.”
“…is there an objective “scientific interest” or is all interest a snare?” (63)
— Oct 18, 2024 01:32PM
“I have no patience with figures of speech.” (61)
“Genius summons up not grotesqueries but verisimilitudes: the lifelike, the anti-magical.” (62)
“Nature does not stop to suspect itself of daily subterfuge.”
“…is there an objective “scientific interest” or is all interest a snare?” (63)
Carlos
is on page 59 of 158
“He had rather ferocious eyes, much too shiny, like something boiling in a pot…” (45)
“But the end’s always at the end; in the meantime there’s the meantime.” (51)
“I remember that he is only interested in; it’s I who feel.” (53)
— Oct 13, 2024 07:40PM
“But the end’s always at the end; in the meantime there’s the meantime.” (51)
“I remember that he is only interested in; it’s I who feel.” (53)
Carlos
is on page 39 of 158
“…busy is busy but parents are parents.” (23)
“But Puttermesser discovered that in City life all rumours are True. Putative turncoats are genuine turncoats.” (29)
“She will always behold Brooklyn Bridge through its windows; also sunsets of high glory, bringing her religious pangs.” (31)
“…you cut to live not to kill.” (35)
— Oct 08, 2024 10:13AM
“But Puttermesser discovered that in City life all rumours are True. Putative turncoats are genuine turncoats.” (29)
“She will always behold Brooklyn Bridge through its windows; also sunsets of high glory, bringing her religious pangs.” (31)
“…you cut to live not to kill.” (35)
