"Fun Home"

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'the complexity of loss':
__ 'Here. I'll do the rest in yellow, and your blue side will be in shadow.' It was a crayonic tour de force. 'Look. By adding thin layers of goldenrod and yellow-orange, I get a richer color'.
__ It's childish, perhaps. to grudge them the sustenance of their creative solitude. But it was all that sustained them, and was thus all-consuming. I learned quickly to feed myself.

__ The blurriness of the photo gives it an ethereal, painterly quality. Roy is gilded with morning seaside light. His hair is an aureole.
__ Butch: it's self-descriptive, cropped, curt, percussive,. Practically onomatopoeic. The opposite of sissy.
__ the approximant liquid of that "or," the plosive "ga," the fricative "z," or the labial, nasal sigh of the final "um."
__ Putting on (dad's) formal shirt with its studs and cuff-links was a nearly mystical pleasure, like finding myself fluent in a language I'd never been taught.

__ 'I thinks' in her diary: It was a sort of epistemological crisis. How did I know that the things I was writing were absolutely, objectively true? My I thinks were gossamer sutures in that gaping rift between signifier and signified.
__ The Wind In the Willows map with Mr. Toad illustrated on it: its mystical bridging of the symbolic and the real, of the label and the thing itself.

Books in her dad's hands throughout the book:
    "Anna Karenina", Kenneth Clark: "The Nude", Ruskin: "The Stones of Venice", "The Tin Drum", Eddison "The Worm Ouroboros", (Margaret  Drabble: "The Waterfall")

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