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www.instagram.comI know. People just don't get why we read like we do. It's a crazy world.
Can You Read a Book in a Quarter of an Hour?
Phone apps now offer to boil down entire books into micro-synopses. What they leave out is revealing.
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Phone apps now offer to boil down entire books into micro-synopses. What they leave out is revealing.
www.newyorker.comThat's actually a really good point. I'm hoping he'll be the one to move on, however Strether doesn't seem to be a man of convictions. He was very cruel to abandon his son.
Oh man, I need to step it up🤦🏻♀️🤷♀️
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The poems, essays, and genre-encompassing reflections in the THIS MOMENT section of the ArabLit Quarterly Spring 2024 “Gaza! Gaza! Gaza!” issue were curated by issue co-editors Muhammad…
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He recognised at last that he had really been trying all along to suppose nothing. Verily, verily, his labour had been lost. He found himself supposing innumerable and wonderful things.
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With whom could he talk of such things?—unless indeed always, at almost any stage, with Maria? .... though it wasn’t to be denied that he was already a little afraid of her “What on earth—that’s what I want to know now—had you then supposed?”
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What it all came to had been that fiction and fable were, inevitably, in the air, and not as a simple term of comparison, but as a result of things said; also that they were blinking it, all round, and that they yet needn’t, so much as that, have blinked it—
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What he saw was exactly the right thing—a boat advancing round the bend and containing a man who held the paddles and a lady, at the stern, with a pink parasol.
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This perception went so far as to bring him to his feet; but that movement, in turn, made him feel afresh that he was tired, and while he leaned against a post and continued to look out he saw something that gave him a sharper arrest.
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there being positively, for that matter, an outer wall of the White Horse that was painted the most improbable shade. That was part of the amusement—as if to show that the fun was harmless;
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“The” thing was the thing that implied the greatest number of other things of the sort he had had to tackle; and it was queer of course, but so it was—the implication here was complete.
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and thus it was that he had at last pulled up before the hostess of the Cheval Blanc, who met him, with a rough readiness that was like the clatter of sabots over stones, on their common ground of a côtelette de veau à l’oseille and a subsequent lift.
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it was all there, in short—it was what he wanted: it was Tremont Street, it was France, it was Lambinet.
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“Ah that’s weak!”
“Precisely!” She had spoken with impatience, but, so far as that at least, he knew where he was. “If I am weak I want to find it out. If I don’t find it out I shall have the comfort, the little glory, of thinking I’m strong.”
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“How in the world is it ‘open’ unless you open it? How can he join them at Liverpool if he but sinks deeper into his situation here?”
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“Well then I dashed off, as you say, so as not to have the confusion of being there if Marie de Vionnet should tell you anything to my detriment.”
He looked as if he considerably doubted. “You even then would have had to face it on your return.”
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“Why, two months, or whatever the time was, ago, did you so suddenly dash off? The reason you afterwards gave me for having kept away three weeks wasn’t the real one.”
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One of the features of the restless afternoon passed by him after Mrs. Pocock’s visit was an hour spent, shortly before dinner, with Maria Gostrey, whom of late, in spite of so sustained a call on his attention from other quarters, he had by no means neglected.
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Oh it would have taken his companion too long to say! “That’s because you have, I verily believe, no imagination. You’ve other qualities. But no imagination, don’t you see? at all.”
“I dare say. I do see.”
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After which Chad observed: “But she doesn’t like me. In fact she hates me.”
Strether’s interest grew. “Then why does she want you at home?”
“Because when you hate you want to triumph, and if she should get me neatly stuck there she would triumph.”
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“It wasn’t for you they came out, but for me. It wasn’t to see for themselves what you’re doing, but what I’m doing. The first branch of their curiosity was inevitably destined, under my culpable delay,
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“You’ve been ‘wonderful, wonderful,’ as we say—we poor people who watch the play from the pit; and that’s what has, admirably, made her.
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www.instagram.comYes, scheduled for December. By all means just join the reads you like. No pressure! We just love your company!!!
Barbara, I'm going to have to do whatever it takes to get you to keep reading with us!!!