Term
Weldon Thorton
Anti-modernism of Joyce...
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Definition
| the typeical modernist lives in constant unease and defensiveness about the reality of the very basis of his or her being. In one sense, then, the modernist crisis involves an unbridgeable gap between our lived experience, and our attempts to "give an account" of that experience within the parameters of a frame of explanation that is utterly antithetical to many implicit features of our experience. |
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Gertrude Stein
Hemingway's intro to The Sun Also Rises |
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Definition
| You are all a lost generation. |
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The Count
The Sun Also Rises
66 |
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Definition
| This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. You lose the taste. |
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The Count
The Sun Also Rises
66 |
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Definition
| She is the only lady I have ever known who was as charming when she was drunk as when she was sober. |
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Brett
about Jake
The Sun Also Rises
66 |
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Definition
| We've all been around. I dare say ___ here has seen as much as you have. |
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about the Count
The Sun Also Rises
67 |
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Definition
| ___ stood up, unbuttoned his vest, and opened his shirt. He pulled up the undershirt onto his chest and stood, his chest black, and big stomach muscles bulging under the light...Below the line where his ribs stopped were two raised white welts...Above the small of the back were the same two scars, raised as thick as a finger. |
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Brett
about the Count, to Jake
The Sun Also Rises
67 |
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Definition
| I told you he was one of us. Didn't I? I love you, ___. You're a darling. |
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Bill
about adding rum to the rum punch
The Sun Also Rises
116 |
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Definition
| Direct action, it beats legislation. |
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while in Bayonne
The Sun Also Rises
116 |
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Definition
| We did lose money on the wine, and the girl was shy but nice about brining it. |
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Term
Harris
friend in Bayonne
The Sun Also Rises
134 |
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Definition
| I say. Really you don't know how much it means. I've not had this much fun since the war...I wish you'd let me pay for it. It does give me pleasure, you know. |
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Term
Jake
Harris different than Mike and Brett
The Sun Also Rises
135 |
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Definition
| You couldn't tell how English would mix with each other, anyway. |
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Jake narrating
about Brett and Cohn
The Sun Also Rises
150 |
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Definition
| She looked quite beautiful...It must have been pleasant for him to see her looking so lovely, and know he had been away with her and that every one knew it. They could not take that away from him. |
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Jake narrating
The Sun Also Rises
150 |
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Definition
| There was much wine, and ignored tension, and a feeliung of things coming that you could not prevent happening. Under the wine I lost the disgusted feeling and was happy. It seemed they were all such nice people. |
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Jake narrating
about Brett Ashley
The Sun Also Rises
152 |
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Definition
| To hell with women, anyway. To hell with you, ___ ____. |
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Term
Jake narrating
The Sun Also Rises
152 |
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Definition
| Just exchange of values. You gave up something and got something else. Or you worked for something. You paid some way for everything that was any good. I paid my way into enough things that I liked, so that I had a good time. Either you paid by learning about them, or by experience, or by taking chances, or by money. |
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Jake narrating
The Sun Also Rises
152 |
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Definition
| Enjoying living was learning to get your money's worth and knowing when you had it. You could get your money's worth. The world was a good place to buy in. |
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Jake narrating
The Sun Also Rises
152 |
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Definition
| I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what it was all about. |
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Term
dancers dancing around Brett
The Sun Also Rises
159 |
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Definition
| They wanted her as an image to dance around. |
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Term
Romero's bull fighting
The Sun Also Rises
171 |
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Definition
| ____'s ___ _____ gave real emotion, because he kept the absolute purity of line in his movements and always quietly and calmly let the horns pass him close each time. |
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Term
Romero's bull fighting
The Sun Also Rises
172 |
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Definition
| ...simulated this appearance of danger in order to give a fake emotional feeling...___ had the old thing, the holding of his purity of line through the maximum of exposure |
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Jake
about Romero
The Sun Also Rises
172 |
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Definition
| He knew everything when he started. The others can't ever learn what he's born with. |
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Term
Jake pimping Brett and Romero
(bull-fighting, Brett and Romero)
The Sun Also Rises
191 |
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Definition
| I went out. The hard-eyed people at the __-___ table watched me go. It was not pleasant. When I came back and looked in the cafe, twenty minutes later, ___ and ____ werw gone. |
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Term
Jake narrating
absence of Brett (and Cohn and Romero)
The Sun Also Rises
228 |
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Definition
| The three of us sat at the table, and it seemed as though about six people were missing. |
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Jake narrating
The Sun Also Rises
236 |
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Definition
| I was through with fiestas for a while. |
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Term
Jake narrating
The Sun Also Rises
238 |
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Definition
| I had recovered an hour by coming to San Sebastian. |
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Term
Brett's letter
The Sun Also Rises
242 |
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Definition
| Could you come Hotel Montana Madrid am rather in trouble |
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Term
Jake narrating
telegram in San Sebastian
The Sun Also Rises
242 |
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Definition
| He had a big moustache and looked very military. |
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Term
Jake narrating
The Sun Also Rises
243 |
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Definition
| That seemed to handle it. That was it. Send a girl off with one man. Introduce her to another and go off with him. Now go and bring her back. And sign the wire with love. That was it all right. I went in to lunch. |
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Jake narrating
The Sun Also Rises
244 |
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Definition
| The Notre station in M__ is the end of the line. All trains finish there. They don't go anywhere. |
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Term
Jake meeting back up with Brett
The Sun Also Rises
245 |
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Definition
| I went over to the bed and put my arms around her. She kissed me, and while she kissed me I could feel she was thinking of something else. She was trembling in my arms. She felt very small. |
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A: Jake, B: Brett
The Sun Also Rises
249 |
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Definition
A: You'll lose it if you talk about it.
B: I just talk around it. You know I feel rather damned good, _A_...You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch...It's sort of what we have instead of God.
A: Some people have God. Quite a lot.
B: He never worked very well with me. |
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A: Brett, B: Jake
The Sun Also Rises
250 |
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Definition
A: Don't get drunk _B_. You don't have to.
B: How do you know?
A: Don't. You'll be alright.
B: I'm not getting drunk. I'm just drinking a little wine. I like to drink wine.
A: Don't get drunk. _B_, don't get drunk. |
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Term
Jake narrating
The Sun Also Rises
251 |
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Definition
| I settled back. ___ moved close to me. We sat close against each other. I puy my arm around her and she rested against me comfortably. It was very hot and bright, and the houses looked sharply white. |
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A: Brett, B:Jake
The Sun Also Rises
251 |
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Definition
A: We could have had such a damned good time together.
B: Yes, isn't it pretty to think so? |
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Term
| Faulkner about Absalom, Absalom! |
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Definition
| The truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact. |
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Term
| Hemingway's iceburg theory |
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Definition
| If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writeer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an iceburg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. |
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Term
Hemingway
"Grace under Pressure" |
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Definition
What do you mean by "guts"?
A: I mean, grace under pressure. |
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Term
| Hemingway in fear of abstractions |
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Definition
| There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Certain numbers were the same way and certain dates and these with the names of places were all you could say and have them mean anything. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the number of regiments and the dates. |
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Term
Rosa
Stupen representing something to her
Absalom, Absalom!
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Definition
| ...a young woman emerging from a holocaust which had taken parents security and all from her...thrown into daily and hourly contact with one of these men who, despite what she might have believed or even known about him, had fought for four honorable years for the soil and traditions of the land where she had been born (and the man who had done that, villain dyed though he be, would have possessed in her eyes, even if only from association with them, the stature and shape of a hero too) |
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Rosa
about Sutpen
Absalom, Absalom!
13 |
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Definition
| Oh he was brave. I have never gainsaid that. |
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Term
about Judith
Absalom, Absalom!
15 |
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Definition
| Protect her? From whom and from what? He has already given them life: he does not need to harm them further. It is from themselves that they need protection. |
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Term
about Judith
blank=Ellen
Absalom, Absalom!
17 |
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Definition
| Yes. From them; from themselves. And this time it was not even the minister. It was ___. |
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about the architect
blanks=Sutpen
Absalom, Absalom!
29 |
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Definition
| ...that only an artist could have borne ___'s ruthlessness and hurry and still manage to curb the dream of grim and castlelike magnificence at which ___ obviously aimed, since the place as ___ planned it would have been almost as large as (town) itself at the time |
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about Sutpen
Absalom, Absalom!
31 |
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Definition
| Because the town now believed that it knew him. |
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Term
Ellen & Sutpen's marriage
Absalom, Absalom!
45 |
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Definition
| He did not forget that night, even though ___, I think did, since she washed it out of her remembering with tears. Yes, she was weeping again now; it did, indeed, rain on that marriage. |
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about Sutpen
A: Clytie, B: Henry, C: Judith
Absalom, Absalom!
48 |
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Definition
| He brought the two women deliberately; he probably chose them with the same care and shrewdness with which he chose other livestock--the horses and mules and cattle--which he bought later on...He named _A_ as he named them all. the one before _A_ and _B_ and _C_ even, with that same robust and sardonic temerity, naming with his own mouth his own ironic fecudity of dragon's teeth which with the two exceptions were girls. |
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Rosa
about Clytie touching her
Absalom, Absalom!
111 |
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Definition
| Then she touched me, and then I did stop dead. |
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Term
Rosa
about Clytie touching her
Absalom, Absalom!
111 |
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Definition
| I know only that my entire being seemed to run at blind full tilt into something monstrous and immobile, with a shocking imact too soon and too quick to be mere amazement and outrage at that black arresting and untimorous hand on my white woman's flesh. |
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Rosa
about Clytie touching her
Absalom, Absalom!
111 |
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Definition
| Because there is something in the touch of flesh with flesh which abrogates, cuts sharp and straight across the devious intricate channels of decorous ordering, which enemies as well as lovers know because it makes them both:--touch and touch of that which is the citadel of the central I-Am's private own: not spirit, soul... |
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Rosa
Absalom, Absalom!
115 |
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Definition
| Once there was (they cannot have told you this either) a summer of wistaria. It was a pervading everywhere of wistaria (I was fourteen then) as though of all springs yet to capitualate condensed into one spring, one summer: the spring and summertime which is every female's who breathed above dust, beholden of all betrayed springs held over from all irrevocable time, repercussed, bloomed again |
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Rosa
Absalom, Absalom!
17 |
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Definition
| ...yet becaus I had not even seen the photograph then, reflected in the secret and bemused gaze of a young girl: because I who had learned nothing of love, not even parents' love--that fond dear constant violation of privacy, that sultificaton of the burgeoning and incorrigible I which is the meed and due of all mammalian meat, became not mistress, not beloved, but more than even love; I became all polymath love's androgynous advocate. |
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Rosa
Absalom, Absalom!
120 |
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Definition
| --the four years while I believed she waited as I waited, while the stable world we had been taught to know dissolved in fire and smoke until peace and security were gone, and pride and hope, and there was left only maimed honor's veterans, and love. |
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Rosa
Absalom, Absalom!
120 |
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Definition
| Yes, there should, there must, be love and faith: these left with us by fathers, husbands, sweethearts, brothers, who carried the pride and the hope of peace in honor's vanguard as they did the flagws; there must be these, else what do men fight for? what else dying for? Yes, dying not for honor's empty sake, nor pride nor even peace, but for that love and faith they left behind. |
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Rosa
Absalom, Absalom!
124 |
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Definition
| No. We did not need him, not even vicariously, who could not even join him in his furious (that almost mad intention which he brought home with him, seemed to project, radiate ahead of him before he even dismounted) desire to restore the place to what it had been that he had sacrificed pity and gentleness and love and all the soft virtues for--if he had ever had them to sacrifice, felt their lack, desired them of others. |
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Sutpen
to Rosa about marriage
Absalom, Absalom!
132 |
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Definition
| I believe that I can promiese that I shall do no worse at least for you |
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Judith
to Charles
Absalom, Absalom!
169 |
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Definition
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Shreve narrating
Charles' thoughts; blank is Charles
Absalom, Absalom!
261 |
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Definition
| Maybe he will write it then. He would just have to write 'I am your father. Burn this' and I would do it. Or if not that, a sheet a scrap of papter with the one word '____ in his hand, and I would know what he meant and he would not even have to ask me to burn it. Or a lock of his hair or a pairing from his finger nail and I wouls know them because I belive now that I have known what his har and his finger nails would look like all my life, could choose that lock and pairing out of a thousand. |
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Term
Quinten
Absalom, Absalom!
157 |
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Definition
| Yes, I have had to listen too long |
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Quinten
Absalom, Absalom!
168 |
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| Yes. I have heard too much, I have been told too much; I have had to listen to too much, too long |
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Quinten
Absalom, Absalom!
170 |
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Quinten
Absalom, Absalom!
171 |
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| Yes, too much, too long. I didn't need to listen then but I had to hear it and now I am having to hear it all over again because he sounds like Father |
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Term
Quinten
Absalom, Absalom!
222 |
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Definition
| I am already hearing it all over again I am listening to it all over again I shall have to never listen to anythign else but this again forever so apparently not only a man never outlives his father but not even his friends and acquaintances do |
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Sutpen
Absalom, Absalom!
212 |
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Definition
| You see, I had a design in my mind. Whether it was a good or a bad design is beside the point; the question is, Where did I make the mistake in it, what did I do or misdo in it, whom or what injure by it to the extent which this would indicate. |
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Sutpen
Absalom, Absalom!
212 |
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Definition
| suffiece that I had the wife, accepted her in good faith, with no reservations about myself, and i expected as much from them. |
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about Sutpen
Absalom, Absalom!
178 |
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Definition
| His trouble was his innocence. |
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Term
Sutpen's cluelessness
Absalom, Absalom!
213 |
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Definition
| Conscience? Conscience? Good God, amn, what else did you expect? Didn't the very affinity and instinct for misfortune of a man who had spent that much time in a monastery even, let alone one who had lived that many years as you lived them, tell you better than that? |
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Wash
about Sutpen and Milly
Absalom, Absalom!
228 |
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Definition
| I have knowed you for going on twenty years now. I aint never denied yit to do what you told me to do. And I'm a man past sixty, And she aint nothing but a fifteen-year-old-gal..But you are different. |
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Term
How the Church Become Invisible
Hauerwas and Wood |
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Definition
| Christians owe an unpayable debt to the magisterial figures of the 19th century American Renaissance for teaching us the lessons that Christian triumphalism had forgotten: the incurable quality of evil and the utter persistence of tragedy. |
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How the Church Become Invisible
Hauerwas and Wood
(quoting Cather I think?) |
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Definition
| Art and religion (they are the same thing in the end, of course) |
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Term
How the Church Become Invisible
Hauerwas and Wood |
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Definition
| The Mexicans long for baptism and marriage, because they have learned, if only in an inchoate way, that their lives are given ultimate direction and hope only as they receive what they cannot give themselves: the grace that puts them in right relation to God and thus to each other. |
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How the Church Become Invisible
Hauerwas and Wood |
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Definition
| The cathedral is not a gargantuan ornament but an essential embodiment of the Gospel. The church, Cather insists, offers not a gnostic deliverance of naked souls but rather a salveation meant for bodies the require things: the blessings of the eye and palate, of the auditory and olfactory senses, of the heart and the will no less than the stomach and the genitals. |
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