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Tag: borrowed words

By Hole Ousia Posted on July 8, 2018December 5, 2024

Exit West

Selected extracts from the novel ‘Exit West‘ by Mohsin Hamed:

Categories: Two culturesTags: borrowed words, Marginalia
By Hole Ousia Posted on July 2, 2018December 5, 2024

The Plague

A few selected extracts from ‘The Plague’ by Albert Camus.

Categories: Medical humanities, Two culturesTags: Albert Camus, borrowed words, quotes, reading
By Hole Ousia Posted on July 2, 2018December 5, 2024

Elmet

A few selected extracts from ‘Elmet’ by Fiona Mozley:

Categories: Two culturesTags: borrowed words, reading
By Hole Ousia Posted on July 2, 2018December 5, 2024

Revolutionary Road

A few extracts from ‘Revolutionary Road‘ by Richard Yates:

Categories: Two culturesTags: borrowed words, reading
By Hole Ousia Posted on July 2, 2018December 5, 2024

Lincoln in the Bardo

Selected extracts from ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’ by George Saunders:

Categories: Two culturesTags: borrowed words, George Saunders, reading
By Hole Ousia Posted on May 31, 2018December 5, 2024

But today no alien marginalia can dim the purity

This wonderful memoir/biography is much more than either: In this post I will intersperse passages from Nabokov’s Speak, Memory with recent images that are personal to me and my family. … Continue reading But today no alien marginalia can dim the purity

Categories: Two culturesTags: borrowed words, Rebel antiquary, Vladimir Nabokov
By Hole Ousia Posted on April 24, 2018December 5, 2024

If morning ever comes

A few selected passages from the novel ‘If morning ever comes’ by Anne Tyler:

Categories: Two culturesTags: Anne Tyler, borrowed words, quotes
By Hole Ousia Posted on April 12, 2018December 5, 2024

To speak our life as we feel it is a freedom

‘The Cost of Living, Deborah Levy’s latest “living autobiography”, I found rather special.  

Categories: Two culturesTags: borrowed words, Deborah Levy, feeling, quotes, reading

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