{"id":1393279,"date":"2016-12-19T10:00:07","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T15:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1393279"},"modified":"2016-12-16T16:50:59","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T21:50:59","slug":"first-lines-of-classic-novels-as-tumblr-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/first-lines-of-classic-novels-as-tumblr-posts\/","title":{"rendered":"First Lines of Classic Novels As Tumblr Posts"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There’s something about quoting famous lines that gives you a sparkling aura of intellectuality and learnedness. It’s why Pudge’s memorizing of dying words in \u00a0Looking for Alaska \u00a0<\/em>wasn’t as macabre as it could’ve been, and it’s why Lorelai Gilmore tried reading \u00a0Swann’s Way \u00a0<\/em>in order to be able to start a sentence with \u00a0“as Proust would say.” (And to impress Max Medina, of course.) Memorizing quotes gives you the highbrow air that neither glasses nor turtlenecks can give you entirely.<\/p>\n

Ah, is there anything at all capable of destroying the cerebral nature of quoting Proust?<\/p>\n

Tumblr, perhaps.<\/p>\n

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There’s something about quoting famous lines that gives you a sparkling aura of intellectuality and learnedness. It’s why Pudge’s memorizing of dying words in \u00a0Looking for Alaska \u00a0wasn’t as macabre as it could’ve been, and continue reading<\/span>\n <\/path>\n <\/svg><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":460,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[7,438,3620,9807,1393,2055,3329,19383,756,346,23373],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393279"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/460"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1393279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1393279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1393279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1393279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}