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David Lodge,Leonard Michaels

Sylvia

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  • Kerriцитирует6 лет назад
    I’ll drive him crazy before he drives me crazy.
  • Kerriцитирует6 лет назад
    He always does something to make me wait before saying what he has in mind. He lights a cigarette, or stares into my eyes and says nothing. The effect is eerily suspenseful. Finally, whatever he says is anticlimactic.
  • Kerriцитирует6 лет назад
    Our conversations, usually about literature or movies, were much influenced by marijuana, hence thrilling, but also very boring.
  • Kerriцитирует6 лет назад
    No better disguise for shame than contempt, and nothing is easier to do than to sneer and denigrate.
  • Kerriцитирует6 лет назад
    ‘I know how I’m behaving,’ she’d say whenever I tried to talk to her about seeing a psychiatrist. She couldn’t, then, see a psychiatrist. She knew herself; she couldn’t talk about her excesses. Too shameful, too embarrassing.
  • Kerriцитирует6 лет назад
    He hardly talked; I talked too much and too easily. He made me wonder if I’d believe the things I said, let alone think them in the first place, if I didn’t get caught up in the momentum of talk.
  • Kerriцитирует6 лет назад
    Being with her in Cambridge, I felt no urgency to be anywhere else. It would be a brilliant, blooming, fragrant summer. I had a girlfriend. No obligations. I had only to be
  • Kerriцитирует6 лет назад
    Years later, I still owed her something. It couldn’t be estimated, or even fully expressed. An infinite debt of feeling.
  • Kerriцитирует6 лет назад
    Mainly, I was struck by Sylvia’s efficiency, how speedily she’d exchanged one man for another. Would it happen to me, too? Of course it would, but she lay beside me now and the cruel uncertainty of love was only an idea, a moody flavour, a pleasing sorrow of the summer night.
  • Kerriцитирует6 лет назад
    Weird delirium was in the air, and in the sluggish, sensual bodies trudging down MacDougal Street.
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