juliaflafla https://juliaflafla.writeas.com/ daily snippets Sun, 24 May 2026 15:36:14 +0000 And the words slide into the slots ordained by syntax, and glitter as with... https://juliaflafla.writeas.com/and-the-words-slide-into-the-slots-ordained-by-syntax-and-glitter-as-with?pk_campaign=rss-feed <![CDATA[And the words slide into the slots ordained by syntax, and glitter as with atmospheric dust with those impurities which we call meaning. – Anthony Burgess, Enderby, p. 406]]> And the words slide into the slots ordained by syntax, and glitter as with atmospheric dust with those impurities which we call meaning. – Anthony Burgess, Enderby, p. 406

]]> https://juliaflafla.writeas.com/and-the-words-slide-into-the-slots-ordained-by-syntax-and-glitter-as-with Sat, 30 Nov 2024 04:08:16 +0000 He had destroyed the thing she loved most; she, in her turn, had exposed him to... https://juliaflafla.writeas.com/he-had-destroyed-the-thing-she-loved-most-she-in-her-turn-had-exposed-him-to?pk_campaign=rss-feed <![CDATA[He had destroyed the thing she loved most; she, in her turn, had exposed him to failure through expectations he was unable to fulfil. Without meaning to, they had found one another's deepest vulnerabilities: they had arrived, by this awful shortcut, at the place where for each of them a relationship usually ended, and set out from there. – Transit, Rachel Cusk (p.24)]]> He had destroyed the thing she loved most; she, in her turn, had exposed him to failure through expectations he was unable to fulfil. Without meaning to, they had found one another's deepest vulnerabilities: they had arrived, by this awful shortcut, at the place where for each of them a relationship usually ended, and set out from there.

– Transit, Rachel Cusk (p.24)

]]> https://juliaflafla.writeas.com/he-had-destroyed-the-thing-she-loved-most-she-in-her-turn-had-exposed-him-to Sat, 12 Oct 2024 01:21:02 +0000 At the first meeting of Literature 311 in September 1953, Vladimir Nabokov... https://juliaflafla.writeas.com/at-the-first-meeting-of-literature-311-in-september-1953-vladimir-nabokov?pk_campaign=rss-feed <![CDATA[At the first meeting of Literature 311 in September 1953, Vladimir Nabokov asked the students to explain in writing why they had enrolled in the course. At the next class he approvingly reported that one student had answered, "Because I like stories." –Lectures on Literature, Vladimir Nabokov ]]> At the first meeting of Literature 311 in September 1953, Vladimir Nabokov asked the students to explain in writing why they had enrolled in the course.

At the next class he approvingly reported that one student had answered, “Because I like stories.”

–Lectures on Literature, Vladimir Nabokov

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