Which incident of literary repetition do you find more exhilerating?

[L E Bryan]

I was still in high school when I came across “The Hollow Men”. I blame those three “This is the way the world ends” with life long bouts of depression. One must be careful with what one reveals to impressionable teenagers.

Lawrence

> On Sep 4, 2017, at 8:48 AM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Not only not exhilarating but downright horrible is Martin in Gabriel Tallent's My Absolute Darling forcing himself on his 14 year old daughter Turtle with repetition of the phrase Goddamn, Goddamn. Pretty much throughout the book.
> 
> On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 11:47 PM, Laura Kelber <laurakelber at gmail.com <mailto:laurakelber at gmail.com>> wrote:
> The "that is the law/are we not men" sequence in The Island of Dr. Moreau, while not what I'd call exhilarating, certainly sticks in the mind.
> 
> Laura
> 
> On Sep 3, 2017 11:11 PM, "jesse gooch" <jlguuch at gmail.com <mailto:jlguuch at gmail.com>> wrote:
> Part two of Howl is the first thing that comes to mind.
> 
>> On Sep 3, 2017, at 1:38 PM, Allan Balliett <allan.balliett at gmail.com <mailto:allan.balliett at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> WAY too soon!!
>> 
>> On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 1:38 PM Allan Balliett <allan.balliett at gmail.com <mailto:allan.balliett at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> WAY too soon...
>> 
>> On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 1:05 PM Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com <mailto:jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> Molly Bloom's orgasmic "Yes, yes, yes" soliloquy from JJ's Ulysses?
>> Or the Judge's terribly swirling dance at the end of CMcC's Blood Meridian?
>> 
>> I'll withhold my choice and reasoning after a few others have chimed in.
>> 
>> Jerky
> 
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