John Darnielle often sends his listeners on a quest of sorts; those listeners who want to plumb the depth of every reference on his hyper-literate albums which have featured brief quotations from diverse works of fiction. The latest literary trace that has resurfaced with my own reading came from Elfriede Jelinek’s “Wonderful, Wonderful Times.” See if you can spot the quotation, recalling on which album it might be found:
She goes on drifting among great, sterile, transparent jellies. Nothing keeps her steady and stable, but the glass-bright mass keeps her in a constant state of suspension, she doesn’t touch the ground. Sophie too will be like that one day, if something isn’t done to prevent it in good time, now. Love will prevent it (p. 91).
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