January 2010
5 posts
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“Literature presents itself as a threat, mystery, challenge and insult to those...”
– Terry Eagleton, quoted in Deirdre Shaun Lynch’s The Economy of Character
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“Art exists that one may recover the sensation of life.”
– Victor Schlovsky
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“Alas! with all her reasonings, she found, that to retentive feelings eight years...”
– Jane Austen, Persuasion
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Neil Gaiman on Neverwhere →
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“The delicacy of intimacy slightly suggested and the simple beauty of a warm...”
– Judy van Sickle Johnson, from “The Bodily Frame: Learning Romance in Persuasion”, published in Nineteenth-Century Fiction