Tuesday, 30 October 2012

Page 1015

'She had seen an instant's pause in Mr. Thompson's facial muscles, then a brighter broader smile - like a silent speech declaring that he had not expected it, but was delighted to know what made her tick and that it was the kind of ticking he understood.'

Page 1010

'Mr. Thompson looked at him silently - and Galt saw, in the tightened lips, in the jutting chin, in the narrowed eyes, the look of an adolescent bully about to utter that philosophical argument which is expressed by the sentence: I'll bash your teeth in.'

Page 921

'Eddie Willers glanced at her with a look of bitterly patient astonishment, and stepped close to her side.'

Page 897

'He knew that they understood. He saw, on their faces, that stubbornly evasive look which he had once thought to be the look of a liar cheating a victim, but which he now knew to be worse: the look of a man cheating himself of his own consciousness.'

Sunday, 5 August 2012

Page 891

'He did not finish; he looked at the three faces before him, and a sudden smile ended his sentence, a smile of weariness, of pity, of incredulous revulsion.'

Page 886 (2)

'The look in his mother's eyes was half-plea, as if she were begging him not to slap her in the face, half-triumph, as if she had slapped his.'

The only way I seemed to be able to make this work was literally to have one expression on each side of my face. Maybe Hank's mother was actually having a stroke? Not that he would have had any sympathy for her.

Page 886

'He stopped on the threshold. They stood looking at his face and at the open door behind him. Their faces had a look of fear and cunning, the look of that blackmail-through-virtue which he had learned to understand, as if they hoped to get away with it by means of nothing but his pity, to hold him trapped, when a single step back could take him out of their reach.'