an abundance of katherines: chapter eight - pages 70-79 (becca)

It's the first morning they spent at the Wells' house. Hassan and Colin agree to a code word of 'Dingleberries' to signify when they've gone too far and should back off. This seems to showcase they're friendship and how the teasing is a necessary component, it's also nice to see that they'll back off when the person just isn't in the mood. The job Hollis has for the boys is to videotape a history. They make their first stop at Starnes' house. We learn about The Beginning (of the End).


memorable lines:
page 70:
"The rooster crowed again. 'Cock-a-doodle-don't, motherfugger,' Colin mumbled. But the rooster cock-a-doodle-did, and by dawn, the crowing created a kind of weird dissonant symphony mingled with the sounds of a Muslim's morning prayers."

page 73:
"'Eternity bids thee to forget.'" (a line from Lara, a poem by Lord Byron.

page 76:
"The house smelled like musty old couches and unfinished wood. It smelled, Colin thought, like cobwebs or hazy memories."
{What a gorgeous description. Hazy memories are exactly what I think of when I enter someone's house that has been around for a long time. It just seems so fitting with the things and people that have been in the home that you won't ever really know.}

page 77:
"...Colin didn't like coffee. He liked the idea of coffee quite a lot - a warm drink that gave you energy and had been for centuries associated with sophisticates and intellectuals. But coffee itself tasted to him like caffeinated stomach bile."
{I quite like the idea of coffee as well. I'm not the biggest fan but this description is totally wonderful (aside the stomach bile of course.}

"It made for a poor living area, but it was an awesome theater. It was so dark that you could sink into the couch and disappear into the movie."
{What an excellent way to describe living vicariously. This is the essence of being involved and absorbed into a film.}

page 79:
"He wanted to draw out the moment before the moment - because as good as kissing feels, nothing feels as good as the anticipation of it."
{Again this seems to be part of Colin's perception of relationships and the ones he's been involved with.}