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  1. John Barth _ The Floating Opera

    Am I boring you? I don't really care, I suppose, but I'll be more comfortable if I knew all this interested you. No doubt when I get the hang of storytelling, after a chapter or two, I'll go faster and digress less often.
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  2. John Barth _ The Floating Opera

    Mi è sempre parso, nei pochi romanzi che ho letto di quando in quando, che esigano parecchio dai lettori quegli autori che iniziano i loro racconti furiosamente, nel bel mezzo delle cose, invece che entrandovi, indietreggiando o di sbieco, con dolcezza.
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  3. John Barth _ The Floating Opera

    So, I begin each day with a gesture of cynicism, and close it with a gesture of faith; or, if you prefer, begin it by reminding myself that, for me at least, goals and objectives are without value, and close it by demonstrating that the fact is irrelevant. A gesture of temporality, a gesture of eternity. It is in the tension between these two gestures that I have lived my adult life.
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  4. John Barth _ The Floating Opera

    I long ago learned that one's illnesses are both pleasanter and more useful if one keeps their exact nature to himself: one's friends, uncertain as to the cause of one's queer behavior and strange sufferings, impute to one a mysteriousness often subtly convenient.
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  5. John Barth _ The Floating Opera

    Intellectual discussion, after all, is the real joy of the winter of life, when other pleasures have flown, as it were.
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  6. John Barth _ The Floating Opera

    So, I begin each day with a gesture of cynicism, and close it with a gesture of faith; or, if youprefer, begin it by reminding myself that, for me at least, goals and objectives are without value, andclose it by demonstrating that the fact is irrelevant. A gesture of temporality, a gesture of eternity. It isin the tension between these two gestures that I have lived my adult life.
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  7. John Barth _ The Floating Opera

    Although my law practice pays my hotel bill, I consider it no more my career than a hundred other things: sailing, drinking, walking the streets, writing my 'Inquirey', starting at walls hunting ducks and 'coons,reading, playing politics, and whatnot. I'm interested in any number of things, and enthusiastic about nothing.
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  8. John Barth _ The Floating Opera

    May I recommend three Maryland beaten biscuits, with water, for your breakfast? They are hard as a haul-seiner's conscience and dry as a dredger's tongue, and they sit for hours in your morning stomach like ballast on a tender ship's keel. They cost little, are easily and crumblessly carried in your pockets, and if forgotten and gone stale, are neither harder nor less palatable than when fresh. What's more, eaten first thing in the morning and followed by a cigar, they put a crabberman's thirst on you, such that all the water in a deep neap tide can't quench --- and none, I think, denies the charms of water on the bowels of morning?
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  9. John Barth _ The Floating Opera

    the enemy you flee is not exterior to yourself
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