"A day like this nourishes one." ~ Miss Happy Happiness!! p. 51
"Buttery sunlight and a vivid wind." p.51
Crepuscular (of, resembling, or relating to twilight) tunnel p. 26
"Dreams ride with us, frictionless, dark reflections in bright water... we can fly in dreams... Dreams play havoc with sequence... rewriting history. Sequence, and consequence." p. 47
Elevenses (89) : a short break for light refreshments, usually with tea or coffee, taken about eleven o'clock in the morning.
Farrago (a confused mixture) of comedy p. 27
"Floriology [the language of flowers] had an actually tongue." p. 50
"Hidden places wink into being... History takes a long time to Happen." p. 103
"I have only one life. I need to take care of it." ~ Ada p. 74
"Kitted out with treacherous tree roots and crumbling banks." p. 7 "Keeping out of the fray." p. 7
Langourously: suggests a dreamy boredom and delicacy that avoids unnecessary, like cats in the sun
Mesmerism. an obscure form of what in a few decades will come to be known as aestheticism." p. 29 "Maybe it wasn't actually Hell, just hellish." p. 50
New York Times Review Oct 28, 2015
Outlandish and Outrageous p. 50
Perdition (22) a state of eternal punishment and damnation into which a sinful and unpenitent person passes after death.
"Quirkish worlds of Andersen and Hoffmann and the unexpurgated Chaucer." p. 30
Quotidian:ordinary or everyday, especially when mundane
"Rubicund health" p. 91 ruddy
Spectral cat
"There is no back story in a dream. Time slips all handcuffs." p. 29 "Time may eddy and distort, but even when it traffics in the past, it does so in the guise of the present moment." p. 46
"Up until ten minutes ago, Ada had not had much experience in the practice of immagination. She'd never been alone long enough to imagine what being lonely might be like. Perhaps she'd have the chance to try. She might even like it." p. 25-6
"Very well. I can wait. May I give you a bit of advice? Don't take the advice of anyone you meet here...
"We're all mad." p. 75 "When does a fall take time,
eXcept for the drift of a leaf or a snowflake, or perhaps a lapse in perdition?" p.22
Yielding to that paradox: that the least powerful among us are privileged with the greatest exposure to feeling. " p. 193 "You'll find children the greatest comfort you can imagine." p. 233
No comments:
Post a Comment