Stopping before a window display she said with great gusto: "je Avis m'acheter des bas!" and never may I forget the way her Parisian childish lips exploded on 'bas', pronouncing it with an appetite that all but the changed 'a' into a brief buoyant bursting 'o' as in 'bot'.
Nabokov displaying his rather annoying tendency to slip into French.
She drew back, a tremor passing through her.
The Odd Women by George Gissing
I endeavoured to lift him up, but the moment I touched him I felt sure that he was dead.
"Neither the gentleman nor the lady found it necessary to enlighten her."
Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers, 1857
It'll go on till there isn't a cat or a dog left to enlist.
I did not like to go quite to the front and stare in at the gate; but I paused beside the garden wall, and looked, and saw no change - except in one wing, where the broken windows and dilapidated roof had evidently been repaired, and where a thin wreath of smoke was curling up from the stack of chimneys.
"Yes, but she craved approval."
Still more impressive was his tussle with the wallpaper
Would you like to hear the quote in German?
Das heimliche Ausreißen und der Nachtgang durch den Wald, das war schön, das war ungewohnt, erregend, geheimnisvoll und doch nicht gefährlich.
Narziß und Goldmund von Hermann Hesse S.26
"If the add-a-beads got tacky, what else will as you go along?"
"Where are you going when you start writing?"
Sophie's Choice- William Styron
"10. This article commented on Carnegie's selection for director: 'When he came to select a head for the department of fine arts in his institution Mr. Carnegie might have gone to Europe and chosen a world renowned painter whose standing in the artistic world would have considerable lustre to this branch of the institute's activities."
-Notes from the Introduction to American Drawings and Watercolors Carnegie Institute publication.
I pulled the book to aid in my art thread response.
- Le service militaire, m'expliqua-t-il, ne convenait pas à ma délicate constitution.
Accordingly, they were traveling through the world in quest of this beauty; and, after successively rejecting the Queen of Golconda, the Princess of Trebizond, the daughter of the great Khan of Tartary, and many others, Labor and Clergy, Nobility and Trade had come to rest themselves on the marble table of the Palace of Justice, at the same time bestowing on the honest audience as many maxims and aphorisms as could in those days have been picked up at the Faculty of Arts, in the examinations; there were sophisms, arguments, figures of speech, and other wordplay by which masters acquired their caps and their degrees.
"Then why didn't she go alive?" I said.
''There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.''
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
He came, it would seem, from a highly cultivated home with a great knowledge of literatue, which meant at that time Homer, Hesiod, Pindar, and the lyric poets, in general the great Ionian tradition, together with the first fifty years or so of Attic tragedy.
"Turn to the photographs in the group labeled 'Tree Clinging Birds"
From Audubon Society-Field Guide to North American Birds (Eastern Region)
Which I did a few times, followed, of course, by a Malcom Lowry-like hangover.
''It is a story, therefore, that can be read, understood and interpreted at two levels (and in some cases at three or four levels).''
The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory by J. A. Cuddon
Enlightenment rationalism displaced religion as the authoritative mode of explaining the universe and altered conceptions of the relations between individuals and natural, supernatural, and social worlds.
*yawn*
Our ever-insufficient knowledge of the future opposes it: and this is called, in the one instance, hope, and in the other, uncertainty of the following day.
"'Who's that singing in the drawing room?'"
Vanity Fair, William Makepiece Thackeray, 1847
The objects of oriental traffic were splendid and trifling; silk, a pound of which was esteemed not inferior in value to a pound of gold; precious stones, among which the pearl claimed the first rank after the diamond; and a variety of aromatics, that were consumed in religious worship and the pomp of funerals.
Gibbon, Edward. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
"The expedition, headed by Lt. Colonel John M. Washington, commander of the Ninth Military Department, Santa Fe, had its primary mission "to make a movement against the Navajo Indians," who had lately been troublesome to new settlements along the Rio Grande."
From People of Chaco-A Canyon and Its Culture by Kendrick Frazier
(not reading it - son left it on desk)
Very Nice Discussion. this is knowledgeable Discussion.
"I guess Marullo's got them shaved as close as they'll shave."
From Steinbeck's The Winter of Our Discontent
(not reading - pulled the book for another thread response)
He understood that she was in need of a dwelling; and though the house he now offered her was merely a cottage, he assured her that every thing should be done to it what she might think necessary, if the situation pleased her.
From Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen.
‘And I, poor fellow’, said the cattle drover; ‘I’m so old and can’t get there yet.’
The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen.
I can now hear words that we never spoke.
"Don’t you love watching the different ways people have of entering a restaurant?"
Taken from The Complete Saki.
But he would not be a world-historical figure; his influence would be nothing like what it has been -it would be as if Shakespeare had died at thirty-seven, in 1601.
Taken from Basic writings of Nietzsche (Introduction by Peter Gay).
Only in the South and in New England would the portfolio genre be preserved in its full purity, because only in these tight enclaves would the fashions popular in Victoria's reign escape the rapid metamorphoses of Victorian culture.
"This evaluation, though quite correct in the description of a surface phenomenon, overlooks the most serious paradox embodied in the curious political history of the Jews".
H. Arendt, "The origins of Totalitarism"
-And twopence, he said, for a pint.
"Ulysses" by James Joyce
Maybe I should have stayed with her.
"I realize, too, that the less I preach, the more likely I am to be heard."
Years went over, and the Giant grew very old and feeble.
The Complete Short Stories of Oscar Wild
"This process would start with Regius."
Descartes' Bones by Russell Shorto
Hold on, listen to this.