The Longest Journey
"The cow is there," said Ansell, lighting a match and holding it out over the carpet. No one spoke. He waited till the end of the match fell off. Then he said again, "She is there, the cow. There, now."
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Text/graphical adventures were like 20-30 years ahead of Hollywood, but 20 years behind paper books and fandom.
- "New York at the present time is not reproducing itself. We are all living swiftly, dying swiftly. Were it not for the influx from out of town the decrease in population would soon be noted. But as it is, for one New Yorker that dies two strangers take up their abode in the city, and thus the loss is not noticed. "
In E.M. Forster's novel The Longest Journey, there appears
"There's no such thing as a Londoner. He's only a country man on the road to sterility."
I imagine that demographers would regard both as exaggerations for effect.
- I've not read Passage (yeah, yeah, I know, it's supposed to be his best, I'll get around to it) but have read both of what I think of as his Italian novels (A Room With a View, Where Angels Fear to Tread) and English novels (Howards End, The Longest Journey) and, of those, would recommend Howards End as the best of those four, by a long shot. Angels is the only one I'd suggest maybe skipping, even if you like his other work.
As for his short stories and short nonfiction (reviews, essays) I'd probably just recommend all of it, though there's quite a lot of that.
