Sentenced: The 4-20-14 Edition
It is somehow appropriate that this year’s 4-20 Sentenced is from:
(1999; image via amazon.com)
There are, obviously, several editions of this book so my page/paragraph/sentence placement may not match yours. The one I’m using (go, public library!) is the Penguin paperback, published in 2000, with the movie poster art.
(Tada! image via imdb.com)
With me? Awesome.
Page 192, full paragraph 2, sentence 3:
“Then he turned smartly on his heels, and with a nod and a curt ‘messieurs-dames‘ to the customers he was gone, like the polite Nazi and a bad war film.”
Best description of a douchebag antagonist ever. You know the type; they’re prominent in the Indiana Jones trilogy. Bow to your face, plot your painful torture and drawn-out demise the second you turn away? The verbal manifestation of Napoleon syndrome, be it mental or physical. One doesn’t even need to know the context to envision one’s nemesis (in this case the priest to Vianne’s preternaturally perceptive chocolatier) flouncing out, the righteousness wafting along behind him.
Perfection.
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