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'At the core of it all there is an absence.' p211
I'm going to have to shelve this with ghost stories.
— Feb 11, 2017 01:20PM
I'm going to have to shelve this with ghost stories.
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Cecily
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Just as people take on ghostly forms, so light takes on corporeal form:
'Around us the shocked shadows congregated... On the lino... a sunburst streamed and shivered.'
p142
— Feb 10, 2017 02:32PM
'Around us the shocked shadows congregated... On the lino... a sunburst streamed and shivered.'
p142
Cecily
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“What is happiness but a refined form of pain?�
p76
— Feb 07, 2017 05:06AM
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Cecily
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A man near death was 'lost inside his clothes... moving wraithlike... a stooping figure flickering from sunlight into shadow... leaving no trace of his passing save a sort of shimmer, a fold in the air, and a coiling question mark of cigarette smoke.' p57
— Feb 05, 2017 04:43AM
Cecily
is on page 35 of 214
You have to read this slowly, as a poem.
'In the corners of the room brownish shadows thronged.'
Ponder that startling and perfect sentence - including its rhythm.
Banville often writes about light (and smells), but where there is light, there are also shadows.
— Feb 01, 2017 05:34AM
'In the corners of the room brownish shadows thronged.'
Ponder that startling and perfect sentence - including its rhythm.
Banville often writes about light (and smells), but where there is light, there are also shadows.
