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He hears his dead undergrad mentor quoting Mark Twain. If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything. “In the field. I seem to have gotten a little lost.”
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
“The word is going around that you’re wanted for an offence under the Official Secrets Act. Your photograph’s in all the London evening papers. The captions are very vague.” Leamas was standing very still.
John le Carré • The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
Southern Gothic
Poppy Higgins • 1 card
the midpoint in The Godfather is when Michael shoots the policeman and his life changes for ever;
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49.
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
She had attached herself to youth and hope and seriousness and now they had failed her more than age and despair.
Graham Greene • The Quiet American
when a protagonist journeys into the woods, the woods have to be as frightening, as dark and foreboding as home is welcoming.