Currently

This week: 110 pages
Last week: 101 pages
Total Semester: 675

3 Favorite Sentences of the Week:

1) "That left the police, who must think that he thought that they thought that he thought they were very dumb."
No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

2) "Even if you went to him and gave him the money, he would still kill you, just for having inconvenienced him."
No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

3) "I'm goin to say that not only will she be able to have an abortion, she'll be able to have you put to sleep."
No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

I read sentence 1 over and over again, but I just get lost. Normally I can follow that kind of stuff, but that's just one too many I think. Sentence 2 doesn't really require explanation, it's just an intriguing description of the antagonist.

Sentence 3 must be put into context. Sheriff Bell is talking to an old woman from Austin, TX, a much bigger city than his country town. The woman talks to him about "right-wing this and right-wing that," and the Sheriff really doesn't care. He says his people are common folk. The woman continues on and says something along the lines of, "I want my grand-daughter to be able to have an abortion." Bell responds by saying, that it's very likely that abortion will be perfectly legal in the future, and in a successful attempt to get the woman to shut up, follows up with sentence 3.