Memoryq Flashcards

1
Q

Memory soar quotes

A

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

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2
Q

david rothstein

haunted by

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haunted by the forces of memory

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3
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haunted by the forces of memory

name of critic

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david rothstein

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4
Q

complete title of the book includes

A

sacred and profane MEMORIES

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5
Q

memory seems better than future

eg catchphrase of Hooper than Ryder hates

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rightyoh

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6
Q

darren morton

seperate from

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the strictures of reality

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7
Q

? narrative

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frame narrative

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8
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effect of the frame narrative

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transience

we know its coming to an end

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9
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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

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10
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the novel’s trajectory leads slowly but deliberately to revelation
which critic

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ann pasternak slater

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11
Q

in prologue what happens to the fountain

A

“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”

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12
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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”

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13
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fountain

is now filled with

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cigarette-ends and the remains of the sandwiches

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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

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15
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we possess nothing

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certainly except the past

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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

A

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”

A

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

20
Q

This was my third term since matriculation, but I date

A

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