January 2010
14 posts
“Will never understand what women want. What do they want? They eat green salad...”
– Saul Bellow “Herzog”
“He went out, fighting his sadness over this solitary life. His chest expanded...”
– Saul Bellow “Herzog”
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“One might think that a boy who was out in the snow for so long would get cold,...”
– Dave Eggers, The Wild Things (via quaerere-deum)
“Max wondered if he should say he was sorry, because he was sorry. But he could...”
– Dave Eggers, The Wild Things (via quaerere-deum)
“Then she looked at me. I thought that she was looking at me for the first time....”
– Fiction: Eyes of a Blue Dog
Jesus all of these stories are so good.
“At night, when insomnia stuck its pins into her eyes, she would have liked to be...”
– “Eva Is Inside Her Cat” Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“He spent that last night in the solitary company of his own corpse”
– “The Third Resignation” Gabriel Marquez
Thoughts On The Wild Things
I did not have the highest hopes for this book. I have honestly always thought the whole project was a just a little too precious. Like they were doing it to show off. I have to say I was pleasantly surprised by the book. It was an interesting study on what happens when an individual is thrown into a situation they are ill equipped to handle. Max causes pain, hardship and elation, but his downfall...
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“Ira’s feeling the void. He doesn’t like the void. Makes him feel...”
– Judith in “The Wild Things”
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