Week 4!

       "He hadn't suffered the eternity of the ring about to be picked up, didn't know the heart rush of hearing that incomparable voice suddenly linked with his own, the sense it gave of being too close to even see her, of being actually inside her ear" (pg 80).

       In this passage, the author is referring to Trip's emotions as he calls Lux on the phone for the first time. The word eternity is a hyperbole to represent how anxious he is to finally hear her voice on the phone. He doesn't know why he feels this way, but all he wants is to be inside her. Throughout this novel, the Lisbon Girl's have represented the forbidden fruit. There is nothing desirable about them, yet everyone wants them, because they know they can't have them. This passage represents a type of spell that Lux has over others. Her voice is incomparable, better than all the rest, and he hasn't even heard it yet.