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1
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Memory soar quotes

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My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of war-time

2
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david rothstein

haunted by

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haunted by the forces of memory

3
Q

haunted by the forces of memory

name of critic

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david rothstein

4
Q

complete title of the book includes

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sacred and profane MEMORIES

5
Q

memory seems better than future

eg catchphrase of Hooper than Ryder hates

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rightyoh

6
Q

darren morton

seperate from

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the strictures of reality

7
Q

? narrative

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frame narrative

8
Q

effect of the frame narrative

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transience

we know its coming to an end

9
Q

despite idealisations of the past what does Ann Pasternak Slater argue
the novel’s trajectory leads

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the novel’s trajectory leads slowly but deliberately to revelation

10
Q

the novel’s trajectory leads slowly but deliberately to revelation
which critic

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ann pasternak slater

11
Q

in prologue what happens to the fountain

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“wired it in and turned the water off”
filled with “cigarette-ends and the remains of the sandwiches”
“you can’t get to it to clean it up, since i put the wire around it”

12
Q

fountain

“you can’t get to it to

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“you can’t get to it to clean it up, since i put the wire around it”

13
Q

fountain

is now filled with

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cigarette-ends and the remains of the sandwiches

14
Q

‘I was being given a

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brief spell of what I had never known, a happy childhood’

replacing memories even living in the past whilst recollecting the past itself

15
Q

we possess nothing

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certainly except the past

16
Q

I should like to bury something precious in

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Every place where I’ve been happy and then, when I was old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember

17
Q

He compares julia leaving him and Sebastian alone to

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After a night of unrest, the siren sounded the all clear

18
Q

It’s a lovely idea

But you can’t

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Believe things because they’re a lovely idea

But I do. That’s how I believe

19
Q

Sebastián “it wasn’t until” read from a book

“Does anyone feel the same kind of emotion for a butterfly or a flower”

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As they do for a cathedral or a picture?” Yes I do.’ That My eyes were opened

20
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This was my third term since matriculation, but I date

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My oxford life from my first meeting with Sebastian

21
Q

Near the end of EIAE s “came home in a state of

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Acute depression from which I totally failed to raise him