His face was tight as a clenched fist, and he reeked of liquor,underarm sweat, and three-day-old foul mood.
His face was tight as a clenched fist, and he reeked of liquor,underarm sweat, and three-day-old foul mood.
''Do you know anything about Pyrrhus?''- Ulysses
"Bow, but look straight through them as if they did not exist." - The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick
Bref, l'argent était à lui...
To have him notice, speak to me as if I really mattered in his life, after twelve years with him, that's all I want or need.---As for me and my house by Sinclair Ross
Laying beside me is a collection of poems by Iqbal.
Here is the translation.
Your peaks are matching with the Pleiades in elegance
Though you are standing on earth your abode is sky’s expanse
Bang-e-Dra (The Himalayas) by Allama Iqbal
"Vers la fin du premier mois, cette fille, obligée de garder la maison un dimanche, entama la conversation avec César."
-Cesar Birotteau, Honore de Balzac
"And it is not like her to choose a catspaw who would make such a royal botch of the killing." - George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
Lennox looks out into the street and sees a white van, brilliant magnesium sunlight reflecting from it as it pauses at traffic lights.
Crime, Irvine Welsh
Only don't look anywhere else.
"I went to my table, looking straight before me, and immediately paid penalty of gaucherie by knocking over the vase of stiff anemones as I unfolded my napkin."
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
In the Noone of night,
till the firedrake hath oregon you.
From Ben Jonson - Two Gypsy Songs
"Well, and how is your Zemstvo getting on?" - Anna Karenina
"Afterward the pilot flew north and received a medal." - Inside Out & Back Again - Thanhha Lai
''Even Okonkwo himself became very fond of the boy - inwardly of course.''
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
"And Lord Henry flung himself down on the divan, and opened his cigarette-case"
- Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray
Edith kept reassuring her youngest child that the Vonneguts would rise to the top again, and would resume his "proper place in society" when the bad times ended and "would swim with members of other leading families at the Indianapolis Athletic Club, would play tennis and golf with them at the Woodstock Golf and Country Club."
And So It Goes Kurt Vonnegut: A Life by Charles J. Shields
"I was holding my breath.' - Life of Pi, Yann Martel
No one has a sense of humor.
Perhaps if something were funny...Quote:
Originally Posted by papillondemai
"For the war that was seen to be coming Wollweber was assigned the task of sabotaging Germany's sea-borne supplies."
Struggle in the Dark, (How Russian and other Iron curtain spies operate) J. Bernard Hutton, 1969, Pub. George Harrap.
And to the above postings.
Even funny books would be unlikely to have a humerous point at a specific place, namely page 23 sentence 4.
Ouch!Quote:
Originally Posted by *Classic*Charm*
'To dine alone or to sit alone after dinner was flat rebellion to be fought with every weapon of underhand stealth or of open appeal.' - Night and Day by Virginia Woolf
'C'est entendu, Monsieur,' the patronne said.
Then we talked about the name of the magazine, which I thought was brilliant. - The Savage Detective by Robert Bolano
It had a peculiar attraction for this immoral wretch, who had before this admired only the coarser types of feminine beauty.
"Lucid veterans learn to test reality in two ways; pain and gravity."
~ The Lucid Dreamer by Malcolm Godwin
He would have filled his glass, but there was no drink left.
Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky
K turned to his mother.
The opening of the cell door brought me awake.
"He had heard that women often love unattractive, simple people, but he did not believe it, because he judged by himself, and he only loved beautiful, mysterious and special women." Tolstoy, Anna K
It is sensibly planned, with a redbrick club on its brow, and farther back a grocer's and a cemetery, and the bungalows are disposed along roads that intersect at right angles.
A passage to India by E. M. Forster
"The mighty merchant smiled." .............. Emily Dickinson, Collected Poems
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY
haha "He walked into the room with caution."
"We can't ever be friends again." - John Fowles, The Magus.
"All of the clocks in the room had wound down - the tambours and carriage clocks on the mantel, the banjo and mirror and Viennese regulator on the walls, the Chelsea ship's bells on the rolltop desk, the ogee on the end table, and the seven-foot walnut-cased Stevenson grandfather's clock, made in Nottingham in 1801, with its moon-phase window on the dial and pair of robins threading flowery buntings around the Roman numerals." - Tinkers by Paul Harding
Wow, a long one. :)
"Deborah's complexion was mottling with red."
"An American Dream" by Norman Mailer
I said nothing.
"Do the Mammoth publish you too?"
PG Wodehouse, Something New/Fresh, 1915
I believe what ensues between these two people who met 2 minute ago because she laughed at him doing Larsen Exercise 1, is summig up Facebook way ahead of time:
" - ...Why, we are comrades in misfortune - fellow serfs. We should be friends. Shall we be friends?
- I should be delighted.
- Shall we shake hands, sit down and talk about ourselves a little?
- But I am keeping you from your work.
- An errand of mercy."
That could be Facebook, couldn't it. Oh, we're colleagues, we have to be friends on Facebook... Even down to the 'I'm keeping you from your work.' PG Wodehouse was such an observant man he could even see into the future... :D
I then reflected - and the thought made me shiver that the creature whom I had left in my apartment might still be there - alive and walking about.
-Mary Shelley, Frankenstien