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Alan Hollinghurst · 1994
Sequence ladder
Narrative Intelligence sources live outside the figurative image sequence ladder. Adaptive placement applies to image sequences, not this reading library.
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What this book knows
Obsessive desire hollows the self into an icon-maker, mistaking erotic fixation for love and stalking for devotion.
desire
I imagined a life consecrated to the image of Luc, a shuttered house, the icon of his extraordinary face candlelit in each room.
FS-RC-143The disturbing way the artist seemed to admire the constancy of the Chaplain's obsession—a passion that had taken the fateful turn into fixation.
FS-RC-081erotic-as-power
My authority was manifested in that quick gesture—undiminished, maybe even heightened, by my tolerance in rearranging the lesson.
FS-RC-022I blushed and nodded with genuine enlightenment—I had seen these spying mirrors and never understood them till now.
FS-RC-024shame
You are in a position of trust in the Altidore household... such a trust hardly envisages your starting an affair with your pupil.
FS-RC-100It was the sense of a passion that had taken the fateful turn into fixation, exploited by its own compelling mechanism long after its subject was gone.
FS-RC-1446 published passages · book excerpt · research analysis
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