How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
At the end of that dismal '69 season—the Sugar Maples won just one game—Affenlight turned in his helmet. Football had been a diversion; he had a purpose now, and the purpose was to read. (6.10)
Affenlight and Owen have something in common: a love for sports and for reading. But although Affenlight puts sports aside in favor of reading, Owen decides to combine the two… to disastrous results.
Quote #2
He wrote his dissertation in the kind of white heat in which he'd always imagined writing a novel—the kind of white heat in which his hero Melville, over six torrid months in a barn in Western Massachusetts, had written the greatest novel the world had ever seen. (6.18)
Not only does Guert idolize Herman Melville, he fancies himself to be a bit like Melville too. But why doesn't he continue writing? Melville didn't write just one book, but that's all Guert penned.