December 2011
8 posts
“Bore that I am, I mentioned R. H. Blyth’s definition of sentimentality:...”
– Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters - Salinger
“There will be not a grain left bearing my marks, just as my mother has now,...”
– Michael K, Coetzee
“A: But I love my irony.
Q: Does it give you pleasure?
A: A poor … A...”
– d. barthelme
muitas exclamações
“Fiction after Joyce seems to have devoted itself to propaganda, to novels of...”
– donald barthelme
gente essa última frase
“It went on for a month. Those who had taken it for a cosmic sign cringed beneath...”
– “Against the Day” - Thomas Pynchon (Pynchon está narrando a reação dos habitantes que moravam próximo ao local onde ocorreu o chamado “Evento de Tunguska”, misteriosa queda de um objeto celeste que mudou a cor do céu por uns dias.) (Para mim, representa uma das passagens mais bonitas já escritas por...
“I started out very quiet and beat Mr. Turgenev. Then I trained hard and beat Mr....”
– Ernest Hemingway (via anna-karenina-x)