I am reshelving Jeffrey Eugenides’ Middlesex. Wonderful book. Amazing. Only wish I could have snarfed enough time to have a clean read instead of alotted moments that stretch into the early morning hours. I feel guilty when page turning takes longer than two weeks. A favorite moment, one of many:
Nature brought no relief. Outside had ended. There was nowhere to go that wouldn’t be me.
i’m in the throes of middlesex right now.
two of my favorite moments so far:
“I went into the desert to forget about you. But the sand was the color of your hair. The desert sky was the color of your eyes. There was nowhere I could go that wouldn’t be you.”
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That was exactyly how I felt, following my own Obscure Object. As though I were carrying around a mysterious, unexplained burden or weight.
Yes.
That first quote was definitely a highlight. What makes this romantic scene even more interesting is that that quote (p189 in my paperback, News of the World chapter) is made in the context of taking a quote from a movie, Into the Sands, starring Rita Carrol and Claude Barron. Now, I’ve looked around for that movie or some reference to either of those two actors – and can only find a mention of Rita’s 1950 television show. I’m beginning to think it is a matter for something like the Invisible Library – only dealing with fictional movies in literary works…Of course – If I’m wrong – and there actually is a movie — I’d love to see it.
I searched “reshelved” because Microsoft Word gave it a jagged red line, and this was the third result that popped up.
It IS a word.