#banville

[viecome]

Diez Puntos sobre la escritura y el escritor. MM Figueiras (Twitter)

1. William Faulkner acostumbraba escribir en las paredes de su dormitorio. Cada escritor se dedica a diseñar su propia morada. 2. “Escribe para ti recordando y soñándote”, recomendaba Jack Kerouac. La escritura es una sonda lanzada al fondo de lo que somos. 3. Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, autor de esa obra maestra que es “El gatopardo”, señaló que Stendhal podía resumir una noche de amor en un…

[postcard-from-the-past]

Town Hall and Bayeux Road in Banville, Normandy region of France

French vintage postcard

[readingdiary]

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NOTES 31/3/23 - ‘APRIL IN SPAIN’ - JOHN BANVILLE

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[nobeerreviews]

The past beats inside me like a second heart.

-- John Banville

(Chambéry, France)

[winguontheweb]

Baseball involves a lot of waiting around, especially in spring training. So let's celebrate the season starting today with some goofy sillies from @mirrorvi and I's MBC cast - Amalina playing a devilish prank on Vice~

[lillyli-74]

The past beats inside me like a second heart.

~John Banville

[greencheekconure27]

Edmond Malassis, Illustrations for Théodore de Banville's play "Gringoire", 1904.

Unfortunately the book is rare and I've only been able to find images on auction sites so far.

(@lifesbeencrazy thought you might like this)

[seemoreandmore]

Memory is imagination, and imagination is memory. I don’t think we remember the past, we imagine it. We take a few props with us into the future, and out of those props we make a model, some stage set, and that’s our version of the past. Of course models decay, and they change. And so we’re constantly reshaping the past. Because the past is us. The past is our foundation. - John Banville

[letsswaytogether]

"The past beats inside me like a second heart."

—John Banville, from The Sea (Vintage International, 2006)

[soracities]

Happiness was different in childhood. It was so much then a matter simply of accumulation, of taking things—new experiences, new emotions—and applying them like so many polished tiles to what would someday be the marvellously finished pavilion of the self. And incredulity, that too was a large part of being happy, I mean that euphoric inability fully to believe one's simple luck.

John Banville, The Sea

[dk-thrive]

The past beats inside me like a second heart.

— John Banville, from The Sea (Vintage International, 2006)

[viecome]

Lectura: "Las singularidades". John Banville

Textos Él cogió la copa y bebió. Su mano y su brazo se deslizaron con fluidez hacia arriba siguiendo un hábito abandonado durante mucho tiempo, pero nunca olvidado, un hueco imposible de llenar. Era un inválido en recuperación que estiraba y flexionaba músculos agarrotados durante un largo periodo, con cautela al principio y luego con una sorpresa placentera por la facilidad y familiaridad de…

[shyjusticewarrior]

DC Comics Incorrect Quotes Pt 133

Jason: The past beats inside me like a second heart.

Tim: I'm afraid that if I let someone else take care of me that I'm not really me anymore.

Tim: I always figured I'd go out saving somebody.

Jason: Hey, nobody gets to choose how it happens. The most important thing is that we're here together.

[thebluesthour]

Truly a sumptuous autumn day, all Byzantine coppers and golds under a Tiepolo sky of enamelled blue, the countryside all fixed and glassy, seeming not so much itself as its own reflection in the still surface of a lake.

John Banville, The Sea

[cocosse]

“The secret of survival is a defective imagination.”

John Banville, The Infinities, 2009