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Zadie Smith · 2005
Sequence ladder
Narrative Intelligence sources live outside the figurative image sequence ladder. Adaptive placement applies to image sequences, not this reading library.
What this book knows
Beauty, race, and marriage collide in an academic family whose ideals fail them faster than they can theorize their way free.
ambition-and-status
'What we're trying to interrogate here is the mytheme of artist as autonomous individual with privileged insight into the human.' An awful long silence follows.
SMITH-OB-RC-201Howard wanted Erskine's opinion on his earlier speech. 'Nurses,' thought Howard definitively, 'not sexy.'
SMITH-OB-RC-087belonging
'Your faces are the same underneath.' Her accent, to Levi's ears, was a shameful, comic thing. To Levi, black folk were city folk.
SMITH-OB-RC-065Suddenly he has no other friends. In a lot of ways it's been interesting — he's a lot more politically aware.
SMITH-OB-RC-319embodiment
Light rested softly upon the still life of Kiki at the breakfast table, motionless; father and son choreographed breakfast in speechless harmony.
SMITH-OB-RC-007The park shrugged off its human gardeners: hot bodies, crickets, soft damp bark — Boston primness could not quite survive.
SMITH-OB-RC-052Illuminates
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