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Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in
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David Pennington • 14 cards
Her public reputation, like Demeter’s daughter, crawls back up from the underworld.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
Italo Calvino once remarked, “A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
Stephanie Stokes Oliver • Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power, and Pleasure of Reading and Writing
I finished reading The Ladies' Paradise (Au Bonheur des Dames) by Émile Zola.
While not great if judged solely as a novel, this is an incredible historic document about the rise of the department store and modern commerce that I highly recommend.
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