Extended Reading
  • Amber 2022-09-12 20:14:31

    Going around and back to the origin




    I am isolated from the world and get together in a carnival. I go around and go back to the original point. Only killing yourself is a way of getting out of town. It was carried without any scruples, it was reddened by the scorching sun, and it was sobered by alcohol. The last sentence...

  • Kristy 2022-09-12 22:07:17

    try to summarize the content

    It felt weird, uneasy. Ring (use the concept, count?) structure.
        John Glenn, the teacher assigned to teach at Tibonda after a thousand bond. I am eagerly looking forward to leaving this little place for vacation and going to the big city to meet my girlfriend in Sydney. Mood is dissatisfaction...

Wake in Fright quotes

  • John Grant: Why did you say that?

    'Doc' Tydon: Say what?

    John Grant: About them being proud of hell.

    'Doc' Tydon: Discontent is the luxury of the well-to-do. If you've got to live here, you might as well like it. Why don't you like Crawford?

    John Grant: Jock?

    'Doc' Tydon: The touch of his hairy hand offended you.

    John Grant: I'm bored with it. The aggressive hospitality, the arrogance of stupid people who insist you should be as stupid as they are.

    'Doc' Tydon: It's death to farm out here. It's worse than death in the mines. You want them to sing opera as well?

  • John Grant: A middy please, Charlie.

    [Charlie pours him a glass with a large head of foam]

    John Grant: Having one yourself?

    Charlie: Yeah.

    [drinks the rest of his glass, and pours himself another with less foam]

    Charlie: You've, uh... got snakes in yer pocket, have you?

    John Grant: [chuckles, and puts some coins on the counter]