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[alixtii]

Not a Mary Sue: A girl of eighteen, very much like her mother. Also slim and pretty, she still had a rather childlike expression. Her waist was soft and slender. So beautiful, healthy and well-developed were her youthful breasts that she seemed like the very breath of springtime.

A bazillion points to whoever can guess the original source.

ETA: Here's another from the same author: Afterwards he thought about her in his room at the hotel--thought she would certainly meet him next day; it would be sure to happen. As he got into bed thought how lately she had been a girl at school, doing lessons like his own daughter; he recalled the diffidence, the angularity, that was still manifest in her laugh and her manner of talking with a stranger. This must have been the first time in her life she had been alone in surroundings in which she was followed, looked at, and spoken o merely from a secret motive which she could hardly fail to guess. He recalled her slender, delicate neck, her lovely grey eyes.

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Apparently Commander-in-Chief was preempted by, you know, the Commander-in-Chief. Since I don't think I could stand to watch any President not played by by Gina Davis or Martin Sheen at the moment without throwing things at the television, I think I'm going to skip out. Tell me if he says anything exceptionally stupid; otherwise, I'm sure it'll show up on tomorrow's Daily Show.

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I've done some good work on To Live in Hearts, my chaptered fic where "introduce Madelyn for the first time." It feels good to be working on something more massive than a one-shot again.

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Watched Gilmore Girls for the first time in a quite a long time. What has Rory done with her hair? I'm not a fan. Also, I wish Paris was (were?) prettier. I feel like a horrible person, incredibly shallow, and a failure as a feminist for saying that, but it's still true, unfortunately.

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[alixtii.livejournal.com]

According to the prof, several elements of modernism (and if that's what she meant, she should have said "modernist" but again I won't complain) originated in Russia. Just as Russian formalism influenced Anglo-American structuralism, some of the tropes of modernist poetry, for example, originated in Russia. (Modernist poetry has tropes?) She says--I'll tell you whether or not I buy it afterwards.

[likeadeuce.livejournal.com]

that sounds right -- the symbolists, etc -- but that was generally pre-revolutionary; afterwards, Russian lit, of necessity, grew up somewhat in isolation (assuming you're not including emigre literature, which I assume not, as Nabokov's not on the list!) I think it's just that "modern" means different things in different disciplines. Though why she didn't just say "20th century" is beyond me.

[alixtii.livejournal.com]

We are reading Nabokov; it's just elsewhere on the syllabus that I missed. We're reading Pnin by Nabokov (because it's set in central NY) and Milan Kundera (a Czech writer)'s The Book of Laughter and Forgetting.