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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