The Stand
Med en avig bild på mig börjar jag detta inlägg om The Stand som jag äntligen läste ut inatt. En bok på ca 1430 sidor om en pest som tar död på 99% av världens befolkning och om det heliga kriget som följde. Det tog mig nästan halva sommaren att läsa den, kanske hela fem veckor. Men vilken resa det var. Karaktärerna hade ett otroligt spann av utveckling att ta sig igenom, och jag har självklart några favoritstycken från boken som jag tänker skriva upp nedan:
"The doors slid open, and the sweet odor of decay hit him like a soft slap. It wasn't too strong because the air purifiers were still working, but not even the purifiers could dispose of that smell completely. When a man dies, he wants you to know about it, Starkey thought." S. 211
"There are all sorts of dream interpretations, Freud's being the most notorious, but I have always believed they served a simple eliminatory function, and not much more - that dreams are the psyche's way of taking a good dump every now and then. And that people who don't dream - or don't dream in a way they can often remember when they wake up - are mentally constipated in some way." S. 421
"He wanted to comfort her, but the boy would not take to that. Harold glanced uncomfortably at Fran, then down at the litter of moss on his cuffs, Stu gave her his handkerchief. She thanked him distractedly, without looking up. Harold glared sullenly at him again, the eyes those of a piggy little boy who wants the whole cookie jar to himself. Ain't he going to be surprised, Stu thought, when he finds out a girl isn't a jar of cookies." S. 475
"Maybe it's a good thing that the old woman is gone. Perhaps she knew it would be better that way. Maybe people should be free to judge for themselves what the lights in the sky are, and if one tree has a face or if the face was only a trick of the light and shadow. [...] I wonder if we need to reinvent that whole tiresome business of gods and saviors and ever-afters before we reinvent the flushing toilet. That's what I'm saying. I wonder if this is the right time for gods." S. 1005
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