How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
I have been looking over my manuscripts, pages scrawled with revisions. Pages of literature. This frightens me a little. (1.32)
Henry is kind of skeptical about the whole label "literature." In fact, he's not so sure about books in general—he knows he wants to be a writer, but he doesn't want to be a writer with literary pretentions. Remember: he wants to produce a "prolonged insult," not a book. What do you think: has he succeeded?
Quote #5
Perhaps it is because this book has started to grow inside me. I am carrying it around with me everywhere […] I am pregnant (2.11)
He make be taking this metaphor a bit far, but the point is that Henry has almost a physical attachment to his own writerly creations. But is it fair of him to employ this feminine metaphor after all the woman-hating he's done?
Quote #6
We have evolved a new cosmogony of literature, Boris and I. It is to be a new Bible—The Last Book. All those who have anything to say will say it here—anonymously. We will exhaust the age. After us not another book—not for a generation, at least. (2.12)
You may want to slow down on the ego here, Hank. A new Bible is pretty ambitious. But Henry seems to believe that The Last Book will truly be the last book. The book to capture his generation. The book to end all books. For now, at least.