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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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this was how the worm got in advice/living

[...] Danny had a creepy feeling of watching himself: a gimping, head-injured guy with a right foot full of big white toes anyone could reach out and grab, stumbling through a rotten garden outside a castle full of strangers in a country he didn’t know the name of. A guy at the end of the line is w…

—p.147 The Keep by Jennifer Egan
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sex is a universal temptation

Sex is a universal temptation and activity and a great amnesty will naturally have to attend it throughout life. Scarcely anyone would wish it to define, enclose, imprison a man’s being. Society has other things for him to do, being a soldier for instance — a group notoriously indifferent to sexual…

—p.204 Seduction and Betrayal SEDUCTION AND BETRAYAL (173) by Elizabeth Hardwick
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as opportunities for self-knowledge

In The Scarlet Letter, has Hester Prynne been betrayed by the Reverend Dimmesdale? If the matter lies only inside her own feelings, perhaps we would have to say that she is beyond betrayal. Betrayal is not what she herself feels, not the way her experience shapes itself in her mind and feelings. Lo…

—p.178 SEDUCTION AND BETRAYAL (173) by Elizabeth Hardwick
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as opportunities for self-knowledge

In The Scarlet Letter, has Hester Prynne been betrayed by the Reverend Dimmesdale? If the matter lies only inside her own feelings, perhaps we would have to say that she is beyond betrayal. Betrayal is not what she herself feels, not the way her experience shapes itself in her mind and feelings. Lo…

—p.178 SEDUCTION AND BETRAYAL (173) by Elizabeth Hardwick
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the illicit

The illicit, as R.P. Blackmur writes in his extraordinary essay on Madame Bovary, and its identification with the romantic, the beautiful, and the interesting, lies at the very center of the dramatic action in the novel form. “The more lawful the society, as we say the more bourgeois the society, t…

—p.171 Jane Carlyle (155) by Elizabeth Hardwick