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*29 "It was a ball on a scale so magnificent that it had been talked about ever since Parliament met, now about a fortnight since." -- interesting technique for keeping the narrative feeling temporally proximate: "now"
  
 
==Theme Tracking==
 
==Theme Tracking==

Revision as of 14:10, 22 June 2017

General Notes

  • 29 "It was a ball on a scale so magnificent that it had been talked about ever since Parliament met, now about a fortnight since." -- interesting technique for keeping the narrative feeling temporally proximate: "now"

Theme Tracking

Reading/Writing

  • 11: "He [Booker] was quite adept at this sort of work, and knee well how to review such a book as Lady Carbury's Criminal Queens, without bestowing much trouble on the reading. He could almost do it without cutting the book, so that it's value of after sale might not be injured."
  • 22 Hetta Carbury's face was a "true index" to her character: could you trace the link between indexical/informational forms of literature and understanding character? Has anyone?

Shakespeare References

  • 7 Lady Carbury's Criminal queens: "Cleopatra, of course, I have taken from shakespeare"