nikkorsnapper:
"There has been a flurry of small souls flitting from birdbeeder to feeder this late summer evening."
nikkorsnapper:
"Harriet Vane sat at her writing-table and stared out into Mecklenburg Square."
nikkorsnapper:
Ulysses, by James Joyce
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Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose.
nikkorsnapper:
Mark Helprin, A Soldier of the Great War
nikkorsnapper:
Thomas A. Harris, I'm OK—You're OK
nikkorsnapper:
"There really is no such thing as Art."
nikkorsnapper:
"The modern world began on 29 May 1919...."
nikkorsnapper:
André Gide, La porte étroite/Strait is the Gate
nikkorsnapper:
"Things occupy space—but how many of them there are (or could be) belongs to time, as we tick them off to a walking rhythm that projects ongoing numbering into the future."
nikkorsnapper:
Richard Rhodes, "The Making of the Atomic Bomb."
nikkorsnapper:
Harold Bloom, "The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages."
nikkorsnapper:
José de Escandón, father of the Texas Lower Rio Grande Valley
nikkorsnapper:
David Revill, "The Roaring Silence—John Cage: A Life"
nikkorsnapper:
Alan Lightman, "Einstein's Dreams."
nikkorsnapper:
Frederick Merk, "History of the Westward Movement."
nikkorsnapper:
"I very early understood that the universe is divided between two esthetics: French and German."
nikkorsnapper:
"Monday, January 13th, 1986. Victor Wilcox lies awake, in the dark bedroom, waiting for his quartz alarm clock to bleep."
nikkorsnapper:
Isaac Bashevis Singer, "Enemies, A Love Story"
nikkorsnapper:
Isaac Bashevis Singer, "The Manor"
nikkorsnapper:
A.S. Byatt, "Possession"
nikkorsnapper:
"A Friend of Kafka" by Isaac Bashevis Singer, in "A Friend of Kafka and Other Stories"
nikkorsnapper:
"I was brought up on three dead languages...."
nikkorsnapper:
Time present and time past
nikkorsnapper:
"Je naquis le 22 novembre 1869. Mes parents occupaient alors, rue de Médicis, un appartement au quatrième ou cinquième etage."
nikkorsnapper:
"The first time that Christa Malone heard the name of Innokenti Isayevich Falin, it was spoken by the President of the United States, John F. Kennedy."
nikkorsnapper:
"Was it really all just about words?"
nikkorsnapper:
"The world has been Googled."