"For an instant Sammy cupped the tiny flame this secondhand compliment lit within him. Then he blew it out."


The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, p.8

i was born on the prairie and the milk of its wheat ,the red of its clover,the eyes of its women, gave me a song and a slogan. (carl sandburg-priarie)

"It is difficult to recover from a belittlement to the spirit of kindliness"

-David Adams Richards, Mercy among the Children

"Go lick a dog's ass till it bleeds"

- said by a 12 year old kid to Bobby Newmark,
in William Gibson's "Count Zero"

"My good sir, the only thing worse than being talked about is NOT being talked about" (Wilde, Dorian Gray)

"He who loves bears the burden of the one whome he loves" (Bulgakov, Master and M.)

"who knows, some day man may reach the moon" (old space picture-book from library)

"walk to slow and ya get sunburn; walk too fast and you perspire and catch a chill when we get there; you lose either way" (Camus, Outsider)

"the company of women is that of matter over mind, and that of men? mind over morals" (Wilde, Dorian Gray)

Posted by devnull "Go lick a dog's ass till it bleeds" - said by a 12 year old kid to Bobby Newmark, in William Gibson's "Count Zero"

Oh, devnull... That is so something that would be your favorite line, haha ;) I love it.

In the same book, a 'nurse' tells another person (in front of Bobby):

"He wouldn't be a half-bad lookin' kid, 'cept he's got eyes like two pissholes in a snowbank."

The house of spirits:

"were all fucked then arent we"

" I know now that nothing I planned is going to happen. Whatever it was I planned. Gum! I meant to buy gum. Why was that so impossible? "


"I just regret everything and using my turn signal is too much trouble. Fuck you. Why should you get to know where I'm going, I don't."



Why did I ever by Mary Robison

"He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the monster" - Orwell's 1984

"Their Heads were all reclined either to the Right, or the Left; one of their Eyes turned inwards, and the other directly up to the Zenith" - Swift's Gulliver's Travels

Ray Bradbury, "The Fog Horn"

"That's life for you," said McDunn. "Someone always waiting for someone who never comes home. Always someone loving some thing more than that thing loves them. And after a while you want to destroy whatever that thing is, so it can't hurt you no more."

"We were somewhere on the edge of Barstow when the drugs began to take hold."

Posted by KublaKhan "We were somewhere on the edge of Barstow when the drugs began to take hold."

I watched that movie three times last week.


One of my all-time favorite books and movies...
A Clockwork Orange
"Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeousity made flesh. It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now. As I slooshied, I knew such lovely pictures!"

and
"Initiative comes to thems that wait."

Posted by Emma Peel I watched that movie three times last week. One of my all-time favorite books and movies... A Clockwork Orange "Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeousity made flesh. It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now. As I slooshied, I knew such lovely pictures!" and "Initiative comes to thems that wait."

Excellent call, my friend. I watched that one a few weeks ago. I've seen it something like 20 times over the years. Never gets dull.


Read the book voraciously as a teenager, when senseless ultra-violence was fun.

Posted by Emma Peel One of my all-time favorite books and movies... A Clockwork Orange "Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeousity made flesh. It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now. As I slooshied, I knew such lovely pictures!"

That is entirely fucked up. I used that very quote earlier today.


One of my favorites:

"The small boys came early to the hanging."

Posted by Emma Peel One of my all-time favorite books and movies... A Clockwork Orange

Hmm.

I came late to the movie, already well-acquainted with the book. I was just horrified, and couldn't forgive what they'd done to the ending. I know Kubrick claimed his copy of the book "had the last chapter missing" or some such, but regardless, I left the little arthouse cinema spitting bile at anyone who would listen.

"They lost the whole point of the story!" I ranted at passing children.

But anyway. Perhaps I should watch it again, given that I must have been about nineteen at the time, and prone to a cynical outlook on such things. Maybe this time, I'll appreciate that surreal make-up and giant penis furniture makes up for a complete dismissal of the book's resolution.

Yes, I'm having a bad morning

Like my mother always said, "surreal make-up and giant penis furniture makes up for a lot."

Posted by metawaffle Hmm. I came late to the movie, already well-acquainted with the book. I was just horrified, and couldn't forgive what they'd done to the ending. I know Kubrick claimed his copy of the book "had the last chapter missing" or some such, but regardless, I left the little arthouse cinema spitting bile at anyone who would listen. "They lost the whole point of the story!" I ranted at passing children. But anyway. Perhaps I should watch it again, given that I must have been about nineteen at the time, and prone to a cynical outlook on such things. Maybe this time, I'll appreciate that surreal make-up and giant penis furniture makes up for a complete dismissal of the book's resolution. Yes, I'm having a bad morning

There are two versions of the book, the UK and the US. The US version is missing the last chapter. I have come to the conclusion that Lit and film are two separate artistic mediums, and that if Kubrick would have been faithful to the book, the movie would not have been as good as it was.

"and this in the black frenzied nothingness of the hollow of absence leaves a gloomy feeling of saturated despondency not unlike the topmost tip of desperation which is only the gay juvenile maggot of death's exquisite rupture with life."
~Henry Miller

"love dries up, I thought
as I walked back to the
bathroom, even faster
than sperm."
~Charles Bukowski

Posted by dirt There are two versions of the book, the UK and the US. The US version is missing the last chapter. I have come to the conclusion that Lit and film are two separate artistic mediums, and that if Kubrick would have been faithful to the book, the movie would not have been as good as it was.

I'm sure you're right about the lit/film thing - despite my comments earlier, I'd have been all for the movie if it wasn't for the ending.

From Wikipedia:

Burgess explains that when he'd first brought the book to an American publisher, he'd been told that U.S. audiences would never go for the final chapter, in which Alex sees the error of his ways and resolves to turn his life around (a slow-ripening but classic moment of metanoia; the moment at which one's protagonist realizes that everything he thought he knew, was wrong).


Well, there you go, though I would have said Alex "matures", rather than "sees the error of his ways"

Posted by metawaffle "matures", rather than "sees the error of his ways"

Yeah, neither of those things happen in America.