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15 Cards in this Set
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Perfume: the sense of smell and society's failure to progress
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"the primitive organ of smell, the basest of the senses"
'"The fool sees with his nose" rahter than his eyes, they say, and apparently the light of God-given reason would have to shine yet another thousand years before the last remnants of such primitive beliefs were banished." "a century of decline and disintegration, ending in the spiritual, political and religious quagmire that man had created for himself" |
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Perfume: Grenouille's traits
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"one of the most gifted and abominable personages"
“outrageous self confidence,” “evil, thoroughly evil,” “nothing less than a genius,” “attention, tenderness, [and] love” are “totally dispensable for the young Grenouille,” |
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Perfume: fascination of the abomination
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"a scent...so indescribably good and vital that whoever smelled it would be enchanted and with his whole heart would have to love him"
"They were overcome by a powerful sense of goodwill, of tenderness, of crazy, childish infatuation" |
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S&F: Jason III's nihilism
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"it was men who invented virginity not women....it's like death: only a state in which the others are left."
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S&F: Jason III, Quentin, and Time
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"I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it."
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S&F: The corruption of Southern values
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"I’m a lady. You might not believe that from my offspring, but I am."
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S&F: Caddy and sex
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"did you love them Caddy did you love them When they touched me I died"
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SoS: Flying
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"You can't just fly off and leave a body"
"when [he] discovered...that only birds and airplanes could fly--he lost all interest in himself." "Without wiping away the tears, taking a deep breath, or even bending his knees--he leaped." |
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SoS: Milkman's growth
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"the skin of shame that he had rinsed away in the bathwater...returned."
"I am not responsible for your pain; share your happiness with me but not your unhappiness." |
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SoS: Women
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"there are all kinds of ways to pee on people."
"Where do you get the *right* to decide our lives? ... I'll tell you where. From that hog's gut that hangs down between your legs." |
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SoS: racial violence
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"The earth is soggy with black people's blood."
"What I'm doing ain't about hating white people. It's about loving us." |
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SoS: focusing on the past
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"He didn’t mean it. It happened before he was through. She’d stepped away from him to pick flowers, returned, and at the sound of her footsteps behind him, he’d turned around before he was through. It was becoming a habit—this concentration on things behind him. Almost as though there were no future to be had."
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HoD: Kurtz's last words
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"the Horror!"
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HoD: waste
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"I came upon more decaying machinery, a stack of rusty nails"
"this objectless blasting was all the work going on." |
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HoD: appearances and inverted symbolism
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"papier-mache Mephistopheles"
"white man in such an unexpected elegance of getup" a "miracle" "she was savage and superb, wild-eyed and magnificent" |
