Chapter 2 quotes Flashcards
‘A certain…
… desolate area of land’
‘A fantastic…
… farm, where ashes grew like wheat into grotesque gardens where ash grey men move dimly and already crumbling’
‘The grey…
… land and spasms of black dust’
‘He was a blonde…
… spiritless man, anaemic and faintly handsome […] A damp gleam of hope sprang into his eyes’
‘She was in…
… the middle thirties […] She carried herself as sensuously as some women can’
‘There was an immediate…
… perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves on her body were continuously smouldering […] walking through her husband as if he was a ghost’
‘Mrs Wilson sat…
… discreetly in another car. Tom deferred that much to the sensibilities of those East Eggers who might be on the train’
‘She bought a copy…
… of Town Tattle and a moving pictures magazine and in the station drug-store, some cold cream and a small flask of perfume’
‘Mrs Wilson had…
… changed […] cream coloured chiffon […] with the influence of the dress […] the intense vitality that had been so remarkable in the garage was converted into an impressive hauteur’
‘Her laughter…
… her gestures, her assertions had become increasingly more violently affected moment by moment, and as she expanded, the room around her grew smaller until she was rotating on a noisy, creaking pivot’
‘He wasn’t fit…
… to lick my shoe […] he borrowed someone else’s best suit to get married in’
‘Wild strident…
… argument which pulled my back as if with ropes to my chair’
‘I was within…
… and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the exhaustible variety of life’
‘Making a short…
… deft movement, Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand’
