"But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs."
One of the few English novels written for grown-up people, according to Virginia Woolf. And the greatest novel in the English language, according to Julian Barnes and Martin Amis. I couldn't attest to that, not having read them all. But I'd judge it's pretty good.
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panzade
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Fri 23 Aug, 2013 06:17 pm
@contrex,
I'm afraid when I was 13 I didn't really know what bad writing was. It was only in 6th form that it dawned on me.
I'm afraid when I was 13 I didn't really know what bad writing was. It was only in 6th form that it dawned on me.
I didn't either; I was aware, at the time I first read Lady Chatterley's Lover, that I perceived a certain quality in the writing style, but it was only later I realised that quality was "badness".
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eurocelticyankee
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Sat 24 Aug, 2013 01:39 am
@eurocelticyankee,
With reference to Elmore's rules aside no one seems interested in the origin of the said passage.
Anywho & never.. Published well in advance of Elmore's rules; Leon Uris, Battle Cry.
I did some sleuthing and came up with Lorenzo Carcaterra, of whom I know nothing...
but I'm gonna find out.
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panzade
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Sun 25 Aug, 2013 06:31 am
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For all to be accomplished, for me to feel less lonely, all that remained to hope was that on the day of my execution there should be a huge crowd of spectators and that they should greet me with howls of execration.
