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Anna Castagne Bolling Smith (Binx’s mother)
Lonnie is Binx’s 14-year-old brother, the eldest of his younger half-siblings and Binx’s favorite. Lonnie is disabled and uses a wheelchair; he and Binx get along well because Binx doesn’t pity Lonnie. A devout Catholic, Lonnie believes that his sufferings can be offered to God in reparation for other sinners. He is strict in his religious observances and tends to fast excessively despite his already poor health. Lonnie enjoys going to the movies and overall leads a peaceful, contented life, though he envies his older brother, Duval, who died last year and is therefore with God. While suffering from a viral infection at the end of the book, Lonnie tells Binx that he has conquered his envy, and he’s at peace with his approaching death.
Lonnie Smith Quotes in The Moviegoer
The The Moviegoer quotes below are all either spoken by Lonnie Smith or refer to Lonnie Smith. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 3, Section 2
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A good night: Lonnie happy (he looks around at me with the liveliest sense of the secret between us; the secret is that Sharon is not and never will be onto the little touches we see in the movie and, in the seeing, know that the other sees […]), this ghost of a theater, a warm Southern night, the Western Desert and this fine big sweet piece Sharon.
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Chapter 3, Section 6
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"Moreover, I do not think you should fast," I tell him.
"Why not?"
"You've had pneumonia twice in the past year. It would not be good for you. I doubt if your confessor would allow it. Ask him."
"He is allowing it."
"On what grounds?"
"To conquer an habitual disposition […] to envy."
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“Duval is dead."
"Yes. But envy is not merely sorrow at another's good fortune: it is also joy at another's misfortune."
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Lonnie Smith Quotes in The Moviegoer
The The Moviegoer quotes below are all either spoken by Lonnie Smith or refer to Lonnie Smith. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 3, Section 2
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A good night: Lonnie happy (he looks around at me with the liveliest sense of the secret between us; the secret is that Sharon is not and never will be onto the little touches we see in the movie and, in the seeing, know that the other sees […]), this ghost of a theater, a warm Southern night, the Western Desert and this fine big sweet piece Sharon.
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Chapter 3, Section 6
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"Moreover, I do not think you should fast," I tell him.
"Why not?"
"You've had pneumonia twice in the past year. It would not be good for you. I doubt if your confessor would allow it. Ask him."
"He is allowing it."
"On what grounds?"
"To conquer an habitual disposition […] to envy."
[…]
“Duval is dead."
"Yes. But envy is not merely sorrow at another's good fortune: it is also joy at another's misfortune."
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