Polonius got what was coming to him! But at least we can all get a nice moral lesson out of it: in short, DON'T, under any circumstances, blindly agree with your conversation partner on the shape of clouds... ("To thine own self be true" my rump!)Originally Posted by IceM
This would make an endless list:
- Raskolnikov trying to explain to Sonya why he killed the old lady and realizing he has no clear idea why he did. Such a heartbreaking moment.
- I second Joyce's description of Hell. The two sermons the priest gives are the passages I best remember from the novel.
- Woland keeping his promise and reuniting Margarita and the Master. Also Pontius Pilates and Jesus Christ meeting again to continue their unfinished conversation. Never a happy ending felt so right.
- From Seeing, the Superintendent's change of heart and his rebellion against the government. His attempt at protecting the doctor's wife and his assassination.
- Knowing who killed Roger Ackroyd.
The end of Fahrenheit 451
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The end of The Trial.
"Like a dog!"
There is hope, but not for us.
When Gregor Samsa is forgotten by his family. Truly gripping!
When Benedict kisses Beatrice in Much Ado about Nothing and says "Peace. I will stop your mouth"
Ljovins second marriage proposal to Kitty in "Anna Karenina"
When Kafka makes love with his supposed-to-be mother in "Kafka on the Shore".
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They say darkness is evil; then why does everyone fight in light?
Yes! And the train?
"No, you’re going in vain,” she mentally addressed a company in a coach-and-four who were evidently going out of town for some merriment. “And the dog you’re taking with you won’t help you. You won’t get away from yourselves."
-- Anna Karenina
Some moments from the top of my head:
1) 1984 - The whole book's tension culminating into the final scene in the cafe, and the words from the radio proclaim "under the spreading chestnut tree, I sold you and you sold me".
2) On my second reading of The Stranger, there was a particularly poignant passage in the daze of the court scenes where Mersault muses to himself about his willingness to explain that he always went with the flow of events and moments. Then he interrupts his musings to listen to the prosecutor who was speaking of his soul.
3)Reading Leonard Cohen's The favorite Game there were so many instances that I had to put the book down because the beauty of the language was simply overwhelming
Cheers!
Okay, I really can't go any longer without having read "Anna Karenina" now. Everyone keeps talking about it!
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