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Post by Dear Dairy on Jul 23, 2008 14:54:15 GMT -5
I was impressed by the language, and particularly some of the figures of speech, of Cloud Atlas. Here are a few of my favorites.
Anger sparked in Timothy Cavendish like forks in microwaves. – "Cavendish"
Now and then goldfish splish and gleam like new pennies dropped into water. – "Zedelghem"
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magpie
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Post by magpie on Jul 25, 2008 14:16:33 GMT -5
I think Cavenish has a lovely turn of phrase. It's most of what makes me warm to him despite being such a parasite.
But, immediately flicking through and looking for quotes, each individual phrase seems maybe a bit trite or obvious. Although I actually nearly picked that forks one, forgetting that you had, along with the next sentance
"I want you to evolve a brain cell and sell me a ruddy ticket to Hull."
I guess it's the consistent wittiness that impressed me.
Talking about quotes:
I was struck by the number of quotes, near quotes, and references to other literature - in the broadest sense.
Like Soylent Green, which Cavendish quotes, and Mitchell seems to have used in creating Sonmi's world, or like Meronym's maxim that I put in "How well do you know your literature?" where again the author is directly referred to in another section.
This made me start to wonder whether all the authors explicitly named to in any one section are used in other sections. Has anyone noticed any more?
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