Isolation Flashcards
Sister Penny
“I try to get as far away from other people as possible”
–> goes to the beach
meaninglessness
“Once you have tasted meaninglessness, you lose any idea of reward, or punishment or conventional virtue.”
Nature and Meyer
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Sister Penny “the loving body”
“In the moonlight, you becoming another self. Alone in mystery’
Sneakiness
“Sneakiness was a form of privacy, and privacy here was the first loss. A resistance to the babyishness of this place”
Pirate
He felt like a pirate landing on an island of little maimed animals. A great wave had swept them up and dumped them here. All of them, like him, stranded, wanting to go home.”
Solitude
“entering the territory of a huge caged animal. Even the white glared cheered him. Ever since the fever of polio had subsided, light had seemed less bright to him, older, sadder. Moments of solitude were rare and must be grasped with both hands.
Location of the golden age
“It stood alone, bounded by four flat roads, like an island, which in its present incarnation seemed to symbolise its apartness, a natural quarantine.”
Location of the golden age
“It stood alone, bounded by four flat roads, like an island, which in its present incarnation seemed to symbolise its apartness, a natural quarantine.”
suburbian houses were “drawn back behind a stretch of dry lawn, a porch and front windows sealed by venetian blinds”
After expulsion
“Day and night he carried this ache for her. Only with books did he lose his feelings of panic, of having been disabled, forgotten, thrown out.”
“a ghost, a creature from another planet”
“He who had so quickly acquired an accent like the other kids, so carefully adapted his clothes to look like theirs, was now always going to stand out. Easy to think that this was his destiny, that he was marked from the start…”
