Saturday, May 25, 2013

passage ID pages

Sorry this is a little late, but here it is.

Gatsby:

"And I like large parties. They're so intimate. At small parties there isn't any privacy" (49).

"All right...I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool--that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool"(17).

Scarlet Letter: (I added context for people who have editions with different page numbers)

"Ah, but," interposed, more softly, a young wife, holding a child by the hand, "let her cover the mark as she will, the pang of it will be always in her heart" (chapter 2, between the paragraph that starts with "The magistrates are..." and the paragraph that starts with "What do we talk of marks and brands")

"Children have always a sympathy in the agitations of those connected with them; always, especially, a sense of any trouble or impending revolution, of whatever kind, in domestic circumstances..." (chapter 21, paragraph that starts with "Pearl was decked out with airy gaiety.")

Caroline or Change:

"For change come fast and change come slow but everything changes" (126).

"Rose Stopnick can cook. Rose Stopnick is lovely. Rose Stopnick doesn't smoke. Or play bassoon" (22-23).

ELIC:

"I tried to think about other things. I tried to invent optimistic inventions. But the pessimistic ones were extremely loud" (235).

"If things were easy to find, they wouldn't be worth finding" (ignore that one... see email). 

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