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The Golden Bowl
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bookshelves: 2015-the-modernists
Apr 05, 2013
bookshelves: 2015-the-modernists
Read 2 times. Last read April 12, 2022 to April 20, 2022.
hmm...second reading of this after 20 years did not go as well. I found my patience and attention less than it was, and my level of interest in the text significantly reduced. Far too frequently I picked it up with a sigh and forced myself to wade on through....
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Reading Progress
April 5, 2013
– Shelved
February 15, 2015
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Started Reading
February 15, 2015
– Shelved as:
2015-the-modernists
February 15, 2015
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7.81%
"I think someone could write a thesis on the importance of James' development of the comma for the Modernists. He really does open up a new type of thought-movement in those wonderful twisting sentences of his that would be vital for the invention of SoC writing"
page
40
February 16, 2015
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13.67%
"The man in the little shop in which, well after this, they lingered longest, the small but interesting dealer in the Bloomsbury street who was remarkable for an insistence not importunate, inasmuch as it was mainly mute, but singularly, intensely coercive—this personage fixed on his visitors an extraordinary pair of eyes and looked from one to the other while they considered the object with which he appeared mainly"
page
70
February 16, 2015
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18.36%
"There is a definite connection/influence between these sentences and those of Joseph McElroy. Will have to try and do some searches to see if he has ever mentioned Henry James"
page
94
February 17, 2015
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29.3%
"What a wonderfully, and complexly, fucked up Father/Daughter relationship this is!"
page
150
February 18, 2015
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39.06%
"Then of a sudden, through this tightened circle, as at the issue of a narrow strait into the sea beyond, everything broke up, broke down, gave way, melted and mingled. Their lips sought their lips, their pressure their response and their response their pressure; with a violence that had sighed itself the next moment to the longest and deepest of stillnesses they passionately sealed their pledge."
page
200
February 19, 2015
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59.57%
"getting a little morasses-like now...he is certainly trying my patience a bit"
page
305
February 19, 2015
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Finished Reading
September 24, 2021
– Shelved
(Paperback Edition)
April 12, 2022
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Started Reading
April 12, 2022
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0.39%
"Read this last over 20 years ago, and cant remember much, so figured it was due a re-read"
page
2
April 14, 2022
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15.63%
"The great thing about short chapters (how I wish all books had short chapters) is one can take slow, small bites and really savour every crumb of prose"
page
80
April 20, 2022
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Finished Reading
