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The 400 Blows
Haruki Murakami • Kafka on the Shore
set-up, confrontation and resolution.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
Here she trailed off, because Michael was looking at her in an erasing way so that the strength of every word faded once it had entered the area of his auditory range.
Diana Evans • Ordinary People: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2019
He talked the way people on television talked, and he moved the way people on television moved. There was always a layer of glass between us. I was on this side, and he was on that side. “As
Jay Rubin • The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel (Vintage International)
payoff, in part, depends on the audience forgetting the set-up.
Carson Reeves • Scriptshadow Secrets (500 Screenwriting Secrets Hidden Inside 50 Great Movies)
He enters the forest.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
For Winnicott surprise authenticates: he suggests there is a primitive terror in the form of a simple equation – to be found means to be exploited. And he takes it for granted here that a person can be found in language. The overinterpretative analyst becomes the tyrannical mother, and language is integral to her power.
Adam Phillips • Winnicott
malaprop.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
He saw Laurence’s eroding dead skull beneath the earth with soil clustered around it, yet still, in the midst of all this, he was supposed to choose between chicken-avocado and ham and Pret pickle.