Carol LaHines

@CLahines

Novelist, short story writer, attorney, author of Someday Everything Will All Make Sense (2019).

New York, NY
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Joined May 2018
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  1. Mar 25

    “It was no longer difference of views that produced enmity, but settled enmity that engendered difference of views” “The malignity was neither more nor less than the protest of human nature against the other nature that was crushing it in both of us” Marriage, Kreutzer Sonata

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  2. Mar 13

    So as I’m wandering around the snack aisle of the bodega, stuffing the following into my bag, the radio announcer comes on and says, So you like snacks?, triggering a moment of panic re surveillance state, etc.

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  3. Mar 9

    First post-pandemic tuning! After habituating to multiple dead keys and upper octaves that rendered some ornamental passages, well..

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  4. Mar 2

    “For him boredom seemed to be a bitter and tragic weight, no less than a disaster.” Elsa Morante, Arturo’s Island.

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  5. Feb 26

    Hospital art, NYC

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  6. Feb 15

    “After a moment of glory, universes of exploded stars faded against the cold background of fixed celestial bodies. Underwater, far from our thoughts, the mute fear of the fish.” Description of fireworks in A Girl Returned, Donatella Di Pietrantonio.

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  7. Retweeted
    Feb 11

    Devastating news—Chick Corea has died at age 79. One of the giants of jazz piano has left us—an irreplaceable artist and extraordinary individual.

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  8. Feb 2

    "[S]now was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, falling softly on the dark mutinous Shannon waves."

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  9. Jan 30

    At long last!

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  10. Jan 30

    What merits an R rating nowadays.

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  11. Jan 29

    “She is merely a stupid woman, and so as not to let it be seen how stupid she is, she weaves all those mysteries about her. Like certain grubs which wrap themselves up in saliva so that no one gets at them.” Natalia Ginzburg, Voices in the Evening.

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  12. Jan 27

    This is so true. Even French T.V. subtitles their programs they’re so incomprehensible.

    Replying to @comradecumslut
    Whoever made Quebecois French sound the way it does I just wanna talk
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  13. Jan 23

    “He was tallish, grey-bearded and somewhat stooping, with the sack figure of the sedentary man who would be stout if he were not dyspeptic.” Undine Sprague's father, The Custom of the Country

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  14. Jan 23

    “[H]er soft-cheeked face, with puffy eye-lids and drooping mouth, suggested a partially-melted wax figure which had run to double-chin.” Undine Sprague's mother, The Custom of the Country

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  15. Jan 20

    “We must end this uncivil war.”

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  16. Jan 17

    Revealed: The Shipworm Sex Tapes "It's really sophisticated behavior for what is essentially a clam."

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  17. Jan 5

    Post-holiday, Grand Central.

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  18. Retweeted
    Jan 2

    I once asked Brian Doyle if there was a connection between his Catholicism and his appreciation for language. I love his response.

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  19. 31 Dec 2020

    “What’s any artist, but the dregs of his work?” —William Gaddis

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  20. 28 Dec 2020

    "The light did him harm, but not as much as looking at things did...His mouth had been used as a latrine by some creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum." --Lucky Jim, Kingsley Amis, Dixon awakening.

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