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| TaoMan1121 (profile) wrote, on 5-12-2004 at 9:56pm | |
| Music: Rolling Stones - Street Fighting Man Subject: Steve Martin - Shopgirl |
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| Steve Martin (the actor) is a really good writer. At the very least, he writes about and in a way in which I really respond to. He's only has two fiction works out, the aforementioned and a novel entitled "The Pleasure of My Company"; I can't remember identifying more with a book and its protagionist since High Fidelity. Anyway, I just wanted to jot down a few quotes from the novella that really jumped out at me. I actually did the same for "The Pleasure of My Company" but it ended up being so long that I just posted it as private. pg. 37 - "... it is not the big events that hurt the most but rather the smallest questionable shift in tone at the end of a spoken word that can plow most deeply into the heart." pg. 42 - "This information, this anecdotal training in the understanding of (love), gleaned from experience, books, advice, and mostly hurt feelings... fits in no previous compartment of his experience, and he has created a new memory bank just for housing it all. This memory bank is a jumble. It is not coherent. Occasionally his more rational mind will venture in and try to arrange it, like a boy cleaning his room. But just when everything is in its place, the metaphor holds and two days later the room is a mess." pg. 117 - "Jeremy doesn't understand Lisa's aggressiveness but he doesn't need to. And neither does his recently elevated consciousness. There is no way the tranquil waters in which his brain floats so serenely can also calm two testicles of an unattached twenty-seven-year-old male. pg. 121 - "She hits bottom. She dwells in the muck for several months, not depressed exactly, but involved in a mourning that at first she thinks is for Ray, but soon realizes is for the loss of her old self." Today's Word of the Day: Pro-pin-qui-ty - n. 1) nearness of blood; kinship 2) nearness in place or time; proximity. |
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