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Last night I attended a talk at a local bookshop by Professor Reingard Nischik from Universität Konstanz about the work of Alice Munro. This quote, from Munro’s first novel (Prof. Nischik called the book a “short story cycle”) is the perfect sentence from and about Munro’s fascinating literary world. So mundane and simple, yet polished …
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She is wearing dark glasses, and the reason is that she has taken to weeping in spurts, never at the really bad times but in between; the spurts are as unbidden as sneezes. Alice Munro. “Labor Day Dinner” Selected Stories. London: Vintage (2010)
“Do you think it helps to ask these questions? […] Suppose it’s the humiliation, I want to be humiliated? What good will it do to me to know that?” – “I don’t know. What do you think?”- “I think these conversations are fine when you’re mildly troubled and interested but not when you’re desperate.”- “You’re …
slaughterhouse90210: “In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.” ― Alice Munro, Too Much Happiness
CLARITY AND CHAOS 