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“The Life of Samuel Alexander, His Strange Surprizing Adventures, starts out like a song.”

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“He wonders aloud at the origins of valentining. 'You're right,' Rachel says. 'It is a verb. Can be. And birds valentine each other, make mating calls. And usually mate in mid-February. You see?' 'But why Valentine?' asks Zach. 'Why valentining?' 'There were many Saint Valentines,' offers Tasha. 'I don't know what the link is between their martyrdom and love letters.' Zach is not very interested in the old tradition or the archaic verb. He is not bothered by the mating calls of passerines or the saints named Valentine and their associated symbols—he is merely fishing. Does Rachel think the tradition silly? If he were to send her a valentine, how strange would that be?”

Dialogue Customs Valentine S Day Holidays Traditions Be My Wolff Emma Richler Valentines Etymology Word Origin

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“Like a bird, Tasha sees acutely on the periphery, and for a moment, before fear sets in, this feels somewhat prophetic. The periphery is always full of signs, of things to come, of things that once were, and of yearnings.”

Yearning The Past Prophetic Signs Premonition Psychic Be My Wolff Emma Richler

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“I do not understand you, I bang my head against you, but today I love you so much.”

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“Zachariah's eyes were described as being of the deepest blue. Yet were a person to shine a light at him tonight, straight into his eyes, he would perceive them to be coloured amber, almost gold. He would perceive a wolfish glow.”

Description Eyes Wolf Be My Wolff Emma Richler Wolfish

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“Rachel thinks, What long fingers Mama has, like wands in fairy tales. All the better to conduct with my dear! Ekaterina Wolff has conduits for fingers. Rachel muses on the conducting of music and the conducting of electricity, and of the yellow sign depicting a man falling, struck by a current. Danger of death! What fells the man? A powerful conduction of electricity? Of thought? Of sound? Which? Perhaps the man is felled by music. In the sign, he falls backwards.”

Music Electricity Fairy Tales Be My Wolff Emma Richler Stream Of Consciousness Red Riding Hood

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“So one might say that music killed him, that he was felled by music. It's a theory. String theory.”

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“The older she grows, the farther she walks. It is a good thing the world is round and she is fond of walking in circles or else she might disappear across three times nine countries in the thirtieth tsardom!”

Walking Whimsical Be My Wolff Emma Richler Russian Fairy Tales

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“Everything is connected,' stated Rachel. 'Patterns everywhere.”

Patterns Theme Interconnectedness Be My Wolff Emma Richler Everything Is Connected

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“Even very great things, he meant, can't last forever. Or beautiful things, I suppose. Those too. Things that don't really need replacing except because they fall apart.”

Impermanence Be My Wolff Emma Richler Nothing Lasts Forever Things Fall Apart

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