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List with No Name #19

The part where Ahab says he’d strike at the sun if it insulted him.
The fight at Ennet halfway house.
When Bloom stands up to the cyclops.
Judge Holden directing the men to make gunpowder.
Pretty much all of “The Bear.”
When Raskolnikov does the second murder.
Janie kills Teacake.
The chapter where Netley drives Gull around London and Gull extemporizes a lecture on history and crime.
Those last twenty pages of Correction.
Bast yelling in anger at little JR.
That other underground man, the invisible one, escaping electroshock experiments in the hospital.
Lear and his dead daughter Cordelia.

“Listening to the same programme, she also learned that the only animal that doesn’t crossbreed with its own offspring, is the horse.”
“Somebody went there to die, I believe, in one of the old stories. Paris, perhaps. I mean the Paris who had been Helen’s lover, naturally. And who was wounded quite near the end of that war.”
“With nought a wired from the wordless either.”
“Hack away you mean red nigger, he said, and the old man raised the axe and split the head of John Joel Glanton to the thrapple.”
“I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more.”