Prose ID - ENG 202 Final

“My aunt will be down presently, Mr. Nuttel,” said a very self-possessed young lady of fifteen.

The Open Window - Saki (H. H. Munro)

“One would think he had seen a ghost.”

The Open Window - Saki (H. H. Munro)

“Her great tragedy happened just three years ago.”

The Open Window - Saki (H. H. Munro)

“It was on this very day three years ago that her husband and her two young brothers went off for their day’s shooting and never came back.”

The Open Window - Saki (H. H. Munro)

“The doctors agree in ordering me complete rest, an absence of mental excitement, and avoidance of anything in the nature of violent physical exercise.”

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“Poor dear aunt, she always thinks that they will come back someday, they and the little brown spaniel that was lost with them.”

The Open Window - Saki (H. H. Munro)

“She broke off with a little shudder.”

The Open Window - Saki (H. H. Munro)

“Here they are at last!” she cried.

The Open Window - Saki (H. H. Munro)

“A most extraordinary man, a Mr. Nuttel,” said Mrs. Sappleton. “He could only talk about his illnesses.”

The Open Window - Saki (H. H. Munro)

“Romance at short notice was her speciality.”

The Open Window - Saki (H. H. Munro)

“a shimmering city by the sea”

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas - Ursula Le Guin

“With a clamor of bells…”

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas - Ursula Le Guin

“Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive.”

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas - Ursula Le Guin

“They were not simple folk, you see, though they were happy.”

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas - Ursula Le Guin

“Do you believe? Do you accept the festival, the city, the joy? No? Then let me describe one more thing.”

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas - Ursula Le Guin

“there is a room. It has one locked door, and no window.”

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas - Ursula Le Guin

“Some of them have come to see it, others are content merely to know it is there. They all know it has to be there.”

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas - Ursula Le Guin

“Their tears at the bitter injustice dry when they begin to perceive the terrible justice of reality.”

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas - Ursula Le Guin

“These people go out into the street, and walk down the street alone. They keep walking, and walk straight out of the city—”

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas - Ursula Le Guin

“The place they go towards a place even less imaginable to most of us than the city of happiness.”

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas - Ursula Le Guin

“What can you do if you are thirty and, turning the corner of your own street, you are overcome, suddenly, by a feeling of bliss—absolute bliss!”

Bliss - Katherine Mansfield

“She had this curious feeling of peace and, at the same time, of excitement.”

Bliss - Katherine Mansfield

“Yes, she felt queer, excited, trembling, as though she were about to laugh or cry or both at once.”

Bliss - Katherine Mansfield

“The pear tree in the garden…as lovely as a woman in white.

Bliss - Katherine Mansfield

“It seemed to bloom for her alone.”

Bliss - Katherine Mansfield

“Bertha knew that she loved her.”

Bliss - Katherine Mansfield

“For the first time in her life Bertha Young desired her husband.”

Bliss - Katherine Mansfield

“She saw, dimly, in the hall, Harry with his arms round Pearl…”

Bliss - Katherine Mansfield

“Oh, what is going to happen now?”

Bliss - Katherine Mansfield

“But the pear tree was as lovely as ever and as full of flower and as still.”

Bliss - Katherine Mansfield

The only 2nd person story listed in the readings.

How to Become a Writer - Lorrie Moore

“He did not want to compose another Quixote.”

Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote - Jorge Luis Borges

“His admirable ambition was to produce a few pages…which would coincide—word for word—with Cervantes.”

Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote - Jorge Luis Borges

“He did not want to ‘copy’ it.”

Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote - Jorge Luis Borges

“The task, suggested by Cervantes, was something infinitely richer.”

Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote - Jorge Luis Borges

“Historical truth…is not what happened; it is what we believe happened.”

Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote - Jorge Luis Borges

“Menard’s fragmentary Quixote is more subtle than Cervantes’s.”

Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote - Jorge Luis Borges

“I was in love with New York.”

Goodbye to All That - Joan Didion

“It never occurred to me to call the warmth anything but happiness.”

Goodbye to All That - Joan Didion

“All I could see were the lights on the skyline.”

Goodbye to All That - Joan Didion

“I was very young, and nothing much mattered.”

Goodbye to All That - Joan Didion

“We were living on the wrong side of a double lock.”

Goodbye to All That - Joan Didion

“I hurt the people I cared about.”

Goodbye to All That - Joan Didion

“I could no longer stand the way I lived.”

Goodbye to All That - Joan Didion

“The city had drained me.”

Goodbye to All That - Joan Didion

“It was time to go.”

Goodbye to All That - Joan Didion

“I no longer believed that all things were possible.”

Goodbye to All That - Joan Didion

“Genre is a minimum-security prison.”

Reality Hunger - David Shields

“I want work that…feels alive.”

Reality Hunger - David Shields

“The distinction between fiction and nonfiction is false.”

Reality Hunger - David Shields

“Memoir is the ideal form.”

Reality Hunger - David Shields

“Everything is a remix.”

Reality Hunger - David Shields

“Plagiarism is necessary.”

Reality Hunger - David Shields

“The world is chaos; fiction is the lie that tries to give it shape.”

Reality Hunger - David Shields

“Art is theft.”

Reality Hunger - David Shields