The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (2010) (edit title/settings)

Otane of K edited the memorable quotes of The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet Wednesday, January 9, 2013.

• Edited a quotation: “A crib for a coffin, she thinks,and a swaddling sheet for a shroud.”Orito Aibagawa

Otane of K edited the memorable quotes of The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet Tuesday, January 8, 2013.

• Edited a quotation: “The pistol rests on Ogawa Uzaemon'sUzaemon’s forehead . . .He … He expends his last moment on a prayer. Avenge me. A click, a spring, a strangled whimper nothing now but Now Now Now Now now now now now nownownow--Thundernownownow— Thunder splits the rift where the sun floods in.”

Otane of K edited the memorable quotes of The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet Tuesday, January 8, 2013.

• Edited a quotation: ““The Japanese,Japanese I read”, says Talbot, “giveread give florid names to their kingdom...’The Land of a Thousand Autumns’ or ‘The Root of the Sun.’””Talbot

Otane of K edited the memorable quotes of The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet Tuesday, January 8, 2013.

• Edited a quotation: ““The Japanese, I read”, says Talbot, “give florid names to their kingdome...”...’Thekingdom...’The Land of a Thousand Autumns’orAutumns’ or ‘The Root of the Sun.’””Talbot

Otane of K edited the memorable quotes of The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet Tuesday, January 8, 2013.

• Edited a quotation: “'Then in what light,' Marinus probes, 'do you see her?''Asher?' 'As a . . .' Jacob searches for the right metaphor '. . . as a book whose cover fascinates, and in whose pages I desire to look, a little. Nothing more.'”Jacob de Zoet
• Edited a quotation: “'Blacks do lie,' Lacy opens his snuff-box, 'like geese shit slime.''Why,'slime.' 'Why,' Marinus places his pipe on its stand, 'would Sjako attack you?''Savagesyou?' 'Savages don't need motives!' Fischer spits in the spittoon. 'Your type, DrDr. Marinus, sit at your meetings, nod wisely at wind about "the true cost of the sugar in our tea" from an "Improved Negro" in wig and waistcoat. I, I, am not a man created by Swedish gardens but by Surinam Jungles where one sees the Negro in his natural habitat. Earn yourself one of these' - Peter Fischer unbuttons his shirt to display a three-inch scar above his collarbone - 'and thentellthen tell me a savage has a soul just because he can recite the Lord's Prayer, like any parrot.'”
• Edited a quotation: “The pistol rests on Ogawa Uzaemon's forehead . . .He expends his last moment on a prayer. Avenge me.Ame. A click, a spring, a strangled whimper nothing now butNowbut Now Now Now Now now now now now nownownow--Thunder splits the rift where the sun floods in.”

Otane of K edited the memorable quotes of The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet Tuesday, January 8, 2013.

• Edited a quotation: “I am a righteous man, he thinks, but see what righteousness has done.Goingdone. Going outside is intolerable. Staying inside is intolerable.”Jacob de Zoet
• Edited a quotation: “He inhales once; twice; three times; his crinkled facecrumplesface crumples . . ... . and the shuddering newborn boiled-pink despot howls at Life.”
• Edited a quotation: “'Oh,"Oh, Evil. Evil, evil, evil. You always wield that word as ifitif it were a sword and not a vapid conceit. When you suck theyolkthe yolk from an egg, is this "evil"?'evil'? Survival is Nature's law, andmyand my Order holds - or, better, is - the secret of surviving mortality. Newborn infants are a messy requisite - after the first two weeks of life, the enmeshed soul can't be extracted- and a fifty-strong Order needs a constant supply for its own use, and to purchase the favours of an elite few. Your Adam Smith would understand. Without the Order,moreover,Order, moreover, the Gifts wouldn't exist in the first place. They are an ingredient we manufacture. Where is your "evil"?''Eloquent'evil'?" ''Eloquent lunacy, Lord Abbot Enomoto, is still lunacy.''Ilunacy." "I am more than six hundred years old. You shall die, in minutes . . .'minutes..."”Lord Abbot Enomoto
• Edited a quotation: “. . . so that this(T)his proposal seems not a tether, or anoose,a noose, but a rope lowered to a drowning woman.”

Otane of K edited the memorable quotes of The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet Tuesday, January 8, 2013.

• Added a quotation: “Orito pictures the human mind as a loom that weaves disparate threads of belief, memory, and narrative into an entity whose common name is Self, and which sometimes calls itself Perception.”

Otane of K edited the memorable quotes of The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet Tuesday, January 8, 2013.

• Added a quotation: “The belly craves food, the tongue craves water, the heart craves love, and the mind craves stories.”Orito

Otane of K edited the memorable quotes of The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet Tuesday, January 8, 2013.

• Added a quotation: “Fortune never favors he who wears another's clothes.”Shuzai

Otane of K edited the memorable quotes of The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet Tuesday, January 8, 2013.

• Edited a quotation: “Her dread of Engiftment opens its ugly mouth. 'I . . .can't have done to me what is done to the others. I can't.'Oritocan't.' Orito is ashamed of these words, and ashamed of hershame.her shame. Spare me what the others endure, the wordsmean,words mean, and Orito begins to tremble.”Orito