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theworstofthewest
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Great prose from great or not so great books
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Have you ever found an excellent passage, even in a work that was otherwise lacking?
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theworstofthewest
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Re: Great prose from great or not so great books
« Reply #1 on: Apr 23rd, 2005, 10:10am » |
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"The drug hit him like an express train, a white-hot column of light mounting his spine from the region of his prostate, illuminating the structures of his skull with x-rays of short circuited sexual energy. His teeth sang in their individual sockets like tuning forks, each one pitch-perfect and clear as ethanol. His bones, beneath the hazy envelope of flesh, were chromed and polished, the joints lubricated with a film of silicone. Sandstorms raged across the scoured floor of his skull, generating waves of high thin static that broke behind his eyes, spheres of purest crystal, expanding..."
Neuromancer--William Gibson
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theworstofthewest
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Re: Great prose from great or not so great books
« Reply #2 on: May 29th, 2005, 6:38pm » |
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"History, said Stephen, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake."
Ulysses--James Joyce
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teagirl
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Re: Great prose from great or not so great books
« Reply #3 on: Jul 12th, 2005, 2:51pm » |
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There is an odd musicality to this paragraph from Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf that I love so much. Reading and rereading this part (as well as the paragraphs before it) brings me right to that particular sentiment the author was describing about London and how I envisioned the city to be during that era:
"...In people's eyes, in the swing, tramp, and trudge; in the bellow and the uproar; the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans, sandwich men shuffling and swinging; brass bands; barrel organs; in the triumph and the jingle and the strange high singing of some aeroplane overhead was what she loved; life; London; this moment of June."
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K....
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Re: Great prose from great or not so great books
« Reply #4 on: Jul 13th, 2005, 5:57pm » |
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"Have I told you about the tension of opposites?" he says.
The tension of opposites?
"Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted.
"A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. And most of us live somewhere in the middle."
Sounds like a wrestling match, I say.
"A wrestling match." He laughs. "Yes, you could describe life that way."
So which side wins? I ask.
"Which side wins?"
He smiles at me, the crinkled eyes, the crooked teeth.
"Love wins. Love always wins."
~Mitch and Morris~
Tuesdays with Morrie
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K....
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Re: Great prose from great or not so great books
« Reply #5 on: Jul 18th, 2005, 6:25pm » |
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Psyche, aghast, felt terror flooding her heart instead of love. She had wondered so often why he would never let her see him. There must be some dreadful reason. What did she really know about him? If he was not horrible to look at, then he was cruel to forbid her ever to behold him. "There must be something very wrong," she sobbed, "for him so to shun the light of day."
~~Cupid and Psyche~~
-Edith Hamilton-
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teagirl
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Re: Great prose from great or not so great books
« Reply #6 on: Jul 19th, 2005, 1:51am » |
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on Jul 18th, 2005, 6:25pm, psyche wrote:
Psyche, aghast, felt terror flooding her heart instead of love. She had wondered so often why he would never let her see him. There must be some dreadful reason. What did she really know about him? If he was not horrible to look at, then he was cruel to forbid her ever to behold him. "There must be something very wrong," she sobbed, "for him so to shun the light of day."
~~Cupid and Psyche~~
-Edith Hamilton-
Mythology
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nOrKAy
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Re: Great prose from great or not so great books
« Reply #7 on: Jul 19th, 2005, 5:50am » |
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on Jul 18th, 2005, 6:25pm, psyche wrote:
Psyche, aghast, felt terror flooding her heart instead of love. She had wondered so often why he would never let her see him. There must be some dreadful reason. What did she really know about him? If he was not horrible to look at, then he was cruel to forbid her ever to behold him. "There must be something very wrong," she sobbed, "for him so to shun the light of day."
~~Cupid and Psyche~~
-Edith Hamilton-
Mythology
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, too!
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K....
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Re: Great prose from great or not so great books
« Reply #8 on: Jul 19th, 2005, 4:41pm » |
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Hmmm,.... I'm wond'ring too. Is there something   going on here?  
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K....
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Re: Great prose from great or not so great books
« Reply #9 on: Aug 18th, 2005, 5:45pm » |
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I can shake off everything if I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn!
~~Anne Frank~~
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