Write
Between the Lines is an exploration
and articulation of the obvious and the obscure. A cavalcade of
creation and commentary designed to amuse and bemuse.
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by
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Monahan Huntley
"Life starts
all over again when it gets crisp in the fall."
•
The Great
Gatsby(as
referenced in Best
Laid Plans)
Bryce:
So we have survey courses to start, American Lit, Brit Lit,
everything that should be taught in high school: Hawthorne,
James, Fitzgerald.
Nick:
"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back
ceaselessly with the past." F. Scott. Great Gatsby. That's
a book he wrote.
Bryce:
We don't actually read anything we teach. The department
chair gives us Cliff's Notes at the beginning of the semester
and we just say whatever's in those.
•
Keen
Eddie
Inspector
Monty Pippin: You, see, the key to understanding
the English is not what they say, but the inflection. . .
. the inflection implies the intention.
Detective
Eddie Arlette: Well give me a for instance.
Inspector
Monty Pippin: When Sir Edward asked how my brother
Tom was getting along, what he really meant was, I know where
you live, you bastard. You and your brother will be living
in a rubbish bin by the time I'm through with the lot you
. . .
•
Barton
Fink
Barton Fink:
"I can't start listening to the critics, and I can't
kid myself about my own work. A writer writes from his gut.
His gut tells him what's good, and what's merely adequate.
. . . If I ran off to Hollywood now, I'd be making money,
going to parties, meeting the big shots, but I'd be cutting
myself off . . . from the common man.
