Okay the In Memoriam brain rot is real. I haven't stopped thinking about this book still, so I need to pour out my thoughts. I've made a collection of some of my favourite call-backs between chapters.
Page 6
"Ellwood rubbed a small flat spot on his nose with one finger. He often did that. Gaunt wondered if Ellwood resented that he had punched it there."
Page 119
"whenever Ellwood touched the flat spot Gaunt had punched into his nose, he remembered: there was something inside the fortress."
Gaunt thinking Ellwood resents him for marking his nose because of his vanity, but really Ellwood touches it when Guant's being particularly stubborn to remind himself that one time he was able to break through Gaunt's walls.
Page 8
"I haven't had a compliment from you in about three months. I know, because I always write them down and put them in a drawer."
Page 43
"You will say I am dramatising, but I wrote it all down. I write everything down."
The first quote being said in jest and a fleeting thing. But then Ellwood doubles down on the fact he does indeed write everything down, and you really do believe that he's got a drawer full of written down compliments from Gaunt.
Page 53
"I never call him by his Christian name. (How could I? Call him Sidney, as his wife will one day)
"Gaunt never called that, I don't think he felt close enough to me"
"My Dearest, Darling Sidney"
"I promised myself long ago that I should never call you that unless I was sure I could keep you"
"'Sydney,' said Gaunt, so quickly as if he had been waiting years to say it."
As if he had been waiting years. YEARS guys. And HE HAS been. The wreck that I was after reading "My Dearest, Darling Sidney."
"I know you're fine Gaunt, but are you alright?"
Page 9
"Whereas Gaunt, [...] feared that ugliness was too important to ignore."
"The loss of his eye had been what guaranteed his life and so, to Gaunt, it was beautiful."
Gaunt just being the thoughtful soul that he is and seeing beyond the objectiveness of beauty.
Also, Ellwood reciting every bit of poetry at Gaunt to tell him that he loves him, and Gaunt basically being like I can't understand what you're saying. Just spit it out in real words. Only for Ellwood to lose all the verses from his head to then end their story with, "IβI cannot heave my heart into my mouth.'" And Gaunt finally, finally just KNOWS.
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