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артем масорин artemmasor4616 — This book is worth reading, if not for any other reason (though there are many), for the scene where Xavier abandons Jaromil. So many interesting ideas are explored in the novel, but most are not realised fully--and this adds to the charm. It is still fertile for consideration while not taking the main theme of life in the unreasonable heaviness which we see so often. I particularly enjoyed the exploration of lyric poetry, and of lyric poets.

Osnar Andrade osnarandrade — exhausting. a chore.

David Beltra dbeltra — "Beatrice O'Hara absorbed the sort of education that will be quite impossible ever again; a tutelage measured by the number of things and people one could be contemptuous of and charming about; a culture rich in all arts and traditions, barren of all ideas, in the last of those days when the great gardener clipped the inferior roses to produce one perfect bud." - p. 20 "He lacked somehow that intense animal magnetism that often accompanies beauty in men or women; his personality seemed rather a mental thing, and it was not in his power to turn it on and off like a water faucet. But people never forgot his face." - p. 73 "Such is the power of young contralto voices on sink-down sofas." - p. 80 "He became aware that he had not an ounce of real affection for Isabelle, but her coldness piqued him. He wanted to kiss her, kiss her a lot, because then he knew he could leave in the morning and not care. On the contrary, if he didn't kiss her, it would worry him. ...It would interfere vaguely with his idea of himself as a conqueror." - p. 103 "Don't let yourself feel worthless; often through life you will really be at your worst when you seem to think best of yourself; and don't worry about losing your 'personality,' as you persist in calling it; at fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon, and when you are my age you will give out, as I do, the genial golden warmth of 4 p.m." - p. 116 "If a blond girl doesn't talk we call her a 'doll': if a light-haired man is silent he's considered stupid. Yet the world is full of 'dark silent men' and 'languorous brunettes' who haven't a brain in their heads, but somehow are never accused of the dearth." - p. 137 "Rosalind had had been disappointed in man after man as individuals, but she had great faith in man as a sex. Women she detested. They represented qualities that she felt and despised in herself--incipient meanness, conceit, cowardice, and petty dishonesty. She once told a roomful of her mother's friends that the only excuse for women was the necessity for a disturbing element among men. She danced exceptionally well, drew cleverly but hastily, and had a startling facility with words, which she used only in love-letters." - p. 181 "'I like temperamental men.' 'There aren't any. Men don't know how to be really angry or really happy--and the ones that do, go to pieces." - p. 182 "I'm always afraid of a girl--until I've kissed her." - p. 184 "Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple state they were in before they ate the candy. They don't. They just want the fun of eating it all over again. The matron doesn't want to repeat her girlhood--she wants to repeat her honeymoon. I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again." - p. 264

Abraham Mendoza amctechnology — Fantastic book! Funny and a great plot line!!