Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Existential Vacuums: Anita Brookner, Falling Slowly



Aphorism 127: “Regulate your disappointments!” Chapter Nine

Full Quote: “What was much worse was that Beatrice, whom she loved, was beginning to resemble their mother, not only physically, in certain gestures, but in her refusal to regulate her own disappointments.”

Aphorism 126: “Neglect is not easily forgiven!” Chapter Eight

Aphorism 125: “Be certain that there are no witnesses to bad thinking!” Chapter Seven

Full Quote: “Briefly she was glad that there were no witnesses to the evidence of bad thinking.”

Aphorism 124: “Emancipation and freedom often brings with them unsleeping anxiety!” Chapter Six

Full Quote: “That freedom had, she now saw, proved illusory. Emancipation, flight, had brought with them an unsleeping anxiety.”

Aphorism 123: “Survive your history!” Chapter one

Full Quote: “They had survived their history, and besides, they had no other choices.”

Aphorism 122: “A library allows communion with true achievement!” Chapter one

Full Quote: “She could not now decide whether a library, any library, was a way out or a way in, a way out of daily life which contained too much confusion and wariness, or a way in to silent communion with true achievement..”

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