Reading and loving THE HUNTER by Tana French. #FridayReads
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Reading and loving THE HUNTER by Tana French. #FridayReads
Reading and loving and, alas, about to finish Alice McDermott‘s ABSOLUTION. #fridayreads
IN MARCH 1912 a strange accident occurred in Naples harbour during the unloading of a large ocean-going liner which was reported at length by the newspapers, although in extremely fanciful terms.
-- Stefan Zweig, _Amok_
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“It was heaven on earth--and, some whispered, the devil's garden.“
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“Probably the strangest way anyone celebrated the accession of King James I of England was when a gentlewoman in the far north of Lancashire organised a mock wedding in a country church, between two male servants.“
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“Once, more than half a century ago, he was the handsomest man in the world.“
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“I see you. I see all those who men call monsters.
“And I see the men who call them that. Call themselves heroes, of course.
“I only see them for an instant. Then they're gone.“
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“That morning‘s ice, no more than a brittle film, had cracked and was now floating in segments. These tapped together or, parting, left channels of dark water, down which swans in slow indignation swam.“
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“The koels began to call before daylight. Their voices rang out from the dark trees like an arrangement of bells, calling and echoing each others‘ calls, mocking and enticing each other into ever higher and shriller calls.“
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