tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post1561174333531845857..comments2024-03-27T16:48:21.039-05:00Comments on Wuthering <br>Expectations: Famous Last LinesAmateur Reader (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-55191687278583548282019-12-12T14:15:34.761-06:002019-12-12T14:15:34.761-06:00Hofmann has:
"And link arms and right and le...Hofmann has:<br /><br />"And link arms and right and left and right and left, and marching, marching, we're marching into war, with us are 100 camrades, they drum and play, widdeboom widdeboom, one's all right, the other's all wrong, one stops still, the other falls down, one runs on, the other lies still, widdeboom, widdeboom."<br /><br />Evelyn Waugh's <i>Vile Bodies</i> ends similarly: "And presently, like a circling typhoon, the sounds of battle began to return."<br /><br />I would now like to add about a hundred more examples to this post, of books I have read since.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-37729439212176990062019-12-11T23:58:04.872-06:002019-12-11T23:58:04.872-06:00Und Schritt gefaßt und rechts und links und rechts...Und Schritt gefaßt und rechts und links und rechts und links, marschieren, marschieren, wir ziehen in den Krieg, es ziehen mit uns hundert Spielleute mit, sie trommeln und pfeifen, widebumm widebumm, dem einen gehts gerade, dem einen gehts krumm, der eine bleibt stehen, der andere fällt um, der eine rennt weiter, der andere liegt stumm, widebumm widebumm. (Berlin Alexanderplatz - sorry, I can't really translate it properly, maybe someone can help out by looking up the English translations available)Mytwostotinkihttp://www.mytwostotinki.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-67733298044287161482008-06-21T02:37:00.000-05:002008-06-21T02:37:00.000-05:00The Leopard quote is particularly nice - "Then all...The Leopard quote is particularly nice - "Then all found peace in a heap of livid dust". And what a fine book it is tooAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-26642465116127428592008-03-13T12:02:00.000-05:002008-03-13T12:02:00.000-05:00I am not as big a Browne fan as you are...with the...I am not as big a Browne fan as you are...with the exception of the Religio Medici, which I cannot do without. I cannot imagine not having read that book, and I cannot imagine who I would be had I not read that book. (Geraldine Ferraro, are you freaking paying attention to how to construct a complex sentence with lots of conditionals?)the designated knitterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13587192044297208064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-3130646205460132462008-03-12T09:50:00.000-05:002008-03-12T09:50:00.000-05:00I was somehow hoping that more of your favorites w...I was somehow hoping that more of your favorites would include a reference to Sir Thomas Browne. The Melville probably does, actually.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-62122906871667499062008-03-11T12:49:00.000-05:002008-03-11T12:49:00.000-05:00"It was the devious-cruising Rachel, that in her r..."It was the devious-cruising Rachel, that in her retracing search for her missing children, only found another orphan." -- Herman Melville, Moby-Dick. <BR/><BR/>"The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil water- way leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed somber under an overcast sky--seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness." -- Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness. <BR/><BR/>"I am haunted by waters." -- Norman MacLean, A River Runs Through It<BR/><BR/>"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby <BR/><BR/>"A way a lone a last a loved a long the" -- James Joyce, Finnegans Wake (admittedly, this is better if you also know the opening line -- but conjointly? spectacular.)<BR/><BR/>"His feet are light and nimble. He never sleeps. He says that he will never die. He dances in light and in shadow and he is a great favorite. He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die." -- Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridianthe designated knitterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13587192044297208064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-44973644068176797922008-03-11T07:19:00.000-05:002008-03-11T07:19:00.000-05:00Oh this is lovely, am going to go peruse the site ...Oh this is lovely, am going to go peruse the site right now!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com