tsathul
02-27-2011, 12:41 AM
Anyone who has read secret agent plz respond. This excerpt is from chapter 12.
Mrs.Verloc, after murdering Mr.Verloc, laments about her life to Comrade Ossipon. But I cant get around this sentence. Someone plz explain this.
"She lamented aloud her love of life, that life without grace or charm and almost without decency but of an exalted faithfulness of purpose even unto murder. And, as often happens in the lament of poor humanity, rich in suffering but indigent in words the truth - the very cry of truth - was found in a worn and artificial shape picked up somewhere among the phrases of sham sentiment."
What does she mean by "a worn and artificial shape"?
Mrs.Verloc, after murdering Mr.Verloc, laments about her life to Comrade Ossipon. But I cant get around this sentence. Someone plz explain this.
"She lamented aloud her love of life, that life without grace or charm and almost without decency but of an exalted faithfulness of purpose even unto murder. And, as often happens in the lament of poor humanity, rich in suffering but indigent in words the truth - the very cry of truth - was found in a worn and artificial shape picked up somewhere among the phrases of sham sentiment."
What does she mean by "a worn and artificial shape"?