Juliet, Naked του Nick Hornby

“And they had stayed like that forever, stuck in  a perpetual  postgraduate world where gigs and books and films mattered more to them than they did to other people of their age.” P. 7

“I’m sure that if you put any two random strangers in a room together and got them to talk about lives, all sort of patterns and themes and opposites would emerge, to the extent that  it  would look as though they hadn’t been chosen randomly at all.” P.70

“Duncan thought that real coffee was a bit of a fuss, what with all the waiting and the plunging, and claim to be happy with instant.” P.85

“Experience, then, was something that enabled you to do nothing with a clear conscience.  Experience was an overrated quality.” P. 93

“Shouldn’t something have moved on by now? Did you really still have to hump all your gear by yourself, sell your records and your T-shirts at the back of the room, talk to the crazy guy with no friends who’d been to see you three times a week already?” P.101

“Mediocre loud music penned you in to yourself, made you pace up and down your own mind until you were pretty sure you could see how you mind end up going out of it.” P. 102

“Annie wondered whether there was, anywhere in the country, a DJ wondering how to break into the business. It seemed unlikely, given the number of establishments that seemed to think they needed one. On the contrary, she suspected demand was such that young people had to be co-opted into playing music in bars whether they wanted or not, like a form of national service.” P.127

‘…and sometimes he felt as though he was a proper entertainer, someone whose job was to make extravagant emotional gestures to help people feel.” P. 157

“She had to defend him in order to defend herself. That was why people were so prickly about their partners, even their ex-partners. To admit that Duncan wasn’t up to much was to own up publicly to the terrible waste of time, and terrible lapses in judgment and taste.” P.165

“Nobody was so big a loser that he didn’t even have a story about losing.” P. 191

“…and he rolled the exotic words around his mouth as if they were talian wines.” P. 195

“Every now and again, one of Jackson’s school friends was got dragged off to a seaside town like this, either because the kid’s parents had misremembered a holiday from their youth, or because they had failed to spot the romanticism and poetic license in Bruce Springsteen’s early albums. They always came back appalled by the vulgarity, the malevolence and the drunkenness.” P. 199  

Inherent Vice

Στο βιβλίο του Thomas Pynchon, το Inherent Vice, στην σελίδα 97, έχουμε μιαν αναφορά στο αριστούργημα του George Herriman, το Krazy Kat:

Στην ταινία του Paul Thomas Anderson, την Inherent Vice, στο ψυγείο του ήρωα, βλέπουμε φευγαλέα δυο σελίδες κόμικ που μας θυμίζουν Krazy Kat:

Ξεφυλλίζοντας τον τόμο με τα έγχρωμα στριπς του Krazy Kat, καταφέραμε να ταυτοποιήσουμε το πρώτο, το της πόρτας του ψυγείου (στριπ της 24/5/1936):

Το άλλο, για κάποιον περίεργο λόγο, δεν το έχουμε βρει ακόμα.

The hanged man of Saint-Pholien, του Georges Simenon

'He smoked with his cigarette stuck to his lower lip, a small detail that spoke volumes about his weariness or indifference.' P. 2

'A poor room, like all the other poor rooms in the world, except, perhaps, that poverty is nowhere more dispiriting than in northern Germany.' P.4

'...he did something that Maigret had often seen when businessmen like him had their aperitifs in bars around the Paris stock exchange, for they had that inimitable way of leaning backwards, throwing out their chests while tucking in their chins and opening with careless satisfaction that sacred obect: the leather portefeuille plump with money.' P. 18

'A light rain began to fall, and whenever the car passed a streetlamp, each drop became a star.' P.55

"Below another sketch were written four lines from Francois Villon's Ballad of the Hanged Men.' P.73

'He'd sensed it, that sob of rage and despair swelling inside the man's throat until his Adam's apple quivered.' P.83

'Maigret was tall and wide, particularly broad-shouldered, solidly built, and his run-of-the-mill clothes emphasized his peasant stockiness. His Features were coarse, and his eyes could seem as still and dull as a cow's. In this he resembled certain figures out of children's nightmares, those monstrously big blank-faced creatures that bear down upon sleepers as if to crush them. There was something implacable and inhuman about him that suggested a pachyderm plodding inexorably towards its goal.' P. 83-84

' "When there's a fire, onlookers can't help wanting it to last, to be a spectacular fire, and when the river is rising, newspaper readers hope for major flooding they can talk about for the next twenty years. They want something interesting, and it doesn't matter what!" ' P.124

Οι βιβλιοθήκες μου, του Varlam Shalamov

"Το να διαβάζεις με άλλους παρόντες ήταν για μένα πάντα δυσάρεστο, ως και ντροπή αισθανόμουνα· ήταν χειρότερο κι από το να γράφεις ένα αισθηματικό γράμμα μέσα στο ταχυδρομείο· φοβάσαι μη και κάποιος διαβάσει αυτά που έγραψες." Σελ. 19

"Καταλάβαινα τότε ότι τα βιβλία είναι το νερό για τους εξαντλημένους απ' τη ζέστη πεζούς και ο βιβλιοθηκάριος είναι ο κουβάς για το νερό τους." Σελ. 21

"Ο Μαγιακόφσκι θεωρούσε τους βιβλιοθηκάριους τους πιο ενεργούς εκπροσώπους της έλλειψης πολιτισμού και μόρφωσης, ανθρώπους που δεν διαβάζουν, δεν αγαπούν τα βιβλία, δεν αγαπούν την ποίηση." Σελ. 43

"Τα βιβλία είναι ό,τι καλύτερο έχουμε στη ζωή, είναι η αθανασίας μας. 

Λυπάμαι που ποτέ δεν είχα τη δική μου βιβλιοθήκη" Σελ. 55

Ida, του Pawel Pawlikowski

The Trip to Italy, του Michael Winterbottom

The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, του Preston Sturges

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