🐈My April Reads🐈
- "The Devil in the Flesh" by Raymond Radiguet:
"But nothing is less like a thing than that which is closest to it. A man who has been near to death thinks he knows death. When the day finally comes for him to meet it, he does not recognize it. `This is not it,' he says, as he dies."
- "Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons" by Sam Steiner: "Well maybe I just like revisiting the graves of dead cats. Maybe I'm just that kind of girl."
- The English Ballet by W. J. Turner: "The shadows are dancing, dancing, dancing, dancing:
The grey vapour arms of the forest lie dreaming around them;
The cold, shining moonlight falls from their bodies and faces,
But caught in their eyes lies prisoned and faintly gleaming."
- "In Praise of Shadows" by Junichiro Tanizaki:
"And it is as if the very darkness of the room were melting on your tongue."
- "The Silver Donkey" by Sonya Hartnett: "Coco thought "Lieutenant" was a strange name for a person to have, even a person with an accent hiding in the woods: but her mother often said there was no accounting for some people, so Coco dismissed the thing as unaccountable."
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Now that we are halfway through April, I decided to post my March reads 😁
- "Les Enfants Terribles" by Jean Cocteau: "A child's reaction to this type of calamity is twofold and extreme. Not knowing how deeply, powerfully, life drops anchor into its vast sources of recuperation, he is bound to envisage, at once, the very worst; yet at the same time, because of his inability to imagine death, the worst remains totally unreal to him."
- "Дом с Мезонином", Антон Чехов ("The House with the Mezzanine" by Anton Chekhov) "Сотни верст пустынной, однообразной, выгоревшей степи не могут нагнать такого уныния, как один человек, когда он сидит, говорит и неизвестно, когда он уйдёт."
- "1933 Was a Bad Year" by John Fante: "And I walked faster, my thoughts pursuing me, and I began to run, my frozen shoes squealing like mice, but running didn't help, the thoughts to the left and right and behind me."
- "Униженные и Оскорблённые", Фёдор Достоевкий ("The Humiliated and Insulted" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky): "Говорят, сытый голодного не разумеет; а я, Ваня, прибавлю, что и голодный голодного не всегда поймет."
- "Человек в Футляре", Антон Чехов ("The Man in a Case" by Anton Chekhov)
"Быть может, мы не допускали даже и мысли, что человек, который во всякую погоду ходит в калошах и спит под пологом, может любить."
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