01-21-2019, 08:12 AM | #3901 | |
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Sharing this because it made me laugh. Horrifically, I am not 100% sure the author doesn't actually believe it. From the blurb for Lawrence James Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India
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David Quammen on his role as a natural history columnist:
"His monthly mandate is to demonstrate that evolutionary biology, theoretical ecology, and the incisive contemplation of nature can provide piquant entertainment for people in dental waiting rooms." - David Quammen, The Dope on Eggs: Anisogamy, Science Journalism, and Other Food for Thought - Outside, February 1988 |
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I couldn't make up my mind which pieces to quote from this book so offering two:
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02-18-2019, 06:28 AM | #3905 | ||
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The "done thing" is to tell oneself "it's of its time", but one of the problems I have with phrases like this is that my reaction to them pulls me out of the story. The first was repellent - I literally said out loud, "Seriously? Ugh!" The second, more passively unpleasant. |
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Meanwhile, the latest "Seriously?!" moment, courtesy of Mr Parker: Quote:
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From "The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August" by Claire North -
"Born some time in the mid-1920s, at her oldest she had lived to see planes fly into the World Trade Center. 'I remember thinking,' she would say, 'how frustrating it was that I wouldn’t live long enough to see what happened next.' But she interrogated the kalachakra of the Club, the younger members, those born in the 1980s and 1990s, who shook their heads sadly and said, 'You’re not missing anything.'" |
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"For those who have never heard it (New Orleans Yats), you must begin by imagining all of Brooklyn on Quaaludes." ~Bunny Matthews, as noted by Carmichael and Becker in the Oxford University Press Journal
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Nevermind, if you are determined not to like those books, then you aren't required to keep reading them. I read "Gaudy Night" first (where she makes up her mind) which may have colored my reading of the rest. |
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From "The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August" by Claire North -
"Perhaps, I suggested, the fate of the universe could briefly take second place to the thorny issue of graduating with honours? He blew loudly between his lips, a liquid sound of contempt. “That,” he exclaimed, “is precisely what’s wrong with academics.”" |
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As a descendant of one of those contemned half-castes, I rankled a bit as this. Then I wondered if his use of "brother-in-law" was another nod to the Urdu which was (literally) his first language. If so, the cleverness and aptness of the wordplay makes the slur on my heritage quite OK |
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I loved her description of living in Charles Manson-era Hollywood:
"the neighborhood was peopled mainly by rock-and-roll bands, therapy groups, very old women wheeled down the street by practical nurses in soiled uniforms, and by my husband, my daughter and me" - Joan Didion, The White Album |
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I've been meaning to put this up since I read the book last year:
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