i am in serious need of a plot summary and maybe a quote or two for jordan's book, the dreams of a beast. if anyone has
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jordypoo34 — 19 years ago(April 10, 2006 07:36 PM)
i am in serious need of a plot summary and maybe a quote or two for jordan's book, the dreams of a beast. if anyone has read it, i need this stuff quick!
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Different_Voices — 19 years ago(April 23, 2006 04:04 AM)
Hey, you're in luck: I own a copy of the book. Here's the plot summary from the blurb:
'As always the man leaves his suburban house every morning for the city, walking past the hissing lawn-sprinklers to the station where people wait for trains which hardly ever come. In his office he works on a drawing for a campaign to advertise the scent of musk, whose animal attraction is peculiarly appropriate to the relationship developing vetween himself and the woman who has given him the commission. They meet and couple at a zoo, where escaped animals rustle and chatter in the undergrowth. Back home the man's love ones regard him with mingled pain and unease as his appearance and behaviour degenarate to the point where he must be restrained. But the flimsy doors of locked suburban bedrooms are not made for caging beasts. Out there in those decaying streets a destiny is calling. In a phantasmagoria of frightening, apocalyptic intensity, as the storm finall breaks over the city and indeed the world, the beast achieves an apotheosis that is both awesome and heartrending.'
I don't know what type of quotes you wanted so I just grabbed a few:
'How long was it since I had walked between morning and night? The city seemed to curl under the sun like a scalded leech. THe shadows were tall and black, the pavements white and emptyIs the world to be left to me, I wondered, and such as me?' -Chapter 9, page 36
'I walked through the sleeping city, blinded by the glare, meeting no one.' -Chapter 9, page 36
'The house fell into its evening mood that mood of which one might remark how quiet it is. On the contrary, it was a harvest of sounds.' -Chapter 11, page 48.
'The perfume waned and ebbed in my senses thhrough the chorus that I once thought of as silence. My arms were tough as beetle-hide beneath me on the carpet. My lids were heavy but took a long time to close. Slowly though, that chorus changed from bluish to black and I fell asleep.' -Chapter 12, page 50
'There were curtains of dark like curtains of silk, the blackest furthest away. There was one lone hair on an expanse of tan, which swathed off from me like a desert. At its base the earth swellled a little like a pore, then sucked inwards. And as I stood there it grew. Grew so much that it bent away near its tip, under pressure from its own weight. A tiny drop formed there, fell away and splashed at my feet.' -Chapter 12, page 51
'It was raining. The water came in straight threads, the darkest ones furthest from my gaze. Had I dreamed that liquid, I wondered, from the falling sky.' -Chapter 13, page 53
'The city had grown its coating of haze, so thick that the skyline imitated a horizon, an even murky blue, but for the largest buildings which soared across it.' -Chapter 23, page 73
As I said I didn't know what type of quotes you wanted so I got some that reinforced the book's dream-like quality and developed the idea that nature is much more powerful than anything man can ever create.
I hope that helped. SOrry if it was a bit late.
Cheers.
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SeanJoyce — 16 years ago(August 12, 2009 12:54 AM)
Wow I sure am glad I went into all that effort.
It just makes me happy to know my work was fully appreciated.
You're the horse's ass for putting so much "effort" into helping some pinhead with his homework.
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if that was off, I'd be whoopin' your ass up and down this street.
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bpvalentine — 12 years ago(September 13, 2013 12:15 AM)
Cmon. You posted all that almost two weeks after the guy said he needed help immediately, which means he probably needed it for class. Papers like that are usually due within the week. Did he specify what he needed? I dont know what youre so cut up about.
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carrytwin — 15 years ago(April 22, 2010 09:26 PM)
Read it twice. Love it but can not explain the plot. lol. Partly because I barely remember it now. But it was a great book. I had to read it the second time to get it.
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