In the closing chapter of the first volume of The History of Sexuality and in his brief but significiant introduction to Herculine Barbin, Being the Recently Discovered Journals of a Nineteenth-Century Hermaphrodite, Foucault suggests that the category of sex, prior to any categorization of sexual difference, is itself constructed through a historically specific mode of sexuality.
Gender Trouble, Judith Butler
I wanted to run after her and tell her I had nothing to do with Doreen, because she looked stern and hard-working and moral as an old-style European immigrant and reminded me of my Austrian grandmother.
When we reached Rome, I put myself under a master who was known as Il Firenzuola.
I only saw it from the car as I drove past, you know; I was misled by the way it was folded as it hung in the window.
Among them were whites dressed all in leather who had made their living driving the herds of the “colonels,” the owners of great cattle ranches; full- blooded Indians with reddish skins whose great- great- grandfathers had gone about half naked and eaten the hearts of their enemies; mestizos who had been farm overseers, tinsmiths, blacksmiths, cobblers, or carpenters; and mulattoes and blacks who had been runaways from the sugarcane plantations on the coast and from the rack, the stocks, the floggings with bull pizzles and the brine thrown on the raw lash marks, and other punishments invented for slaves in the sugar factories.
"Mrs. Mancini," she says, "needs a feeding tube."
Third sentence included for context:
He gave her the firm-bordering-on-exasperation look. Because that made so much difference when you've been married for eleven years.
The Great North Road by Peter F. Hamilton
Me enforce for the Jamaica Labour Party in green, and Shotta Sherrif control for the People’s National Party in orange, but them new boys enforce for the party in them back pocket.
After Heisenberg gave quantum theory its fully developed mathematical formalism with his Uncertainty Principle, he and other physicists began to question the nature of a physical or objective reality.
Mysticism and the New Physics by Michael Talbot
I love Talbot- at least, he was very fascinating. . I've been trying to remember the name of one physicist. . Okay it was David Bohm. Very interesting stuff.
Fascinating for sure, but I don't accept many of his ideas even though a part of me wants to.
I fiddled around Dad's desk, working out a couple of problems in calculus just for the hell of it.
I fiddled around Dad's desk, working out a couple of problems in calculus just for the hell of it.
Wallace witnessed the worst impact of sin on humanity as he saw the violence of the Civil War and the Wild West.
Our Daily Bread by varied authors
Without giving us a name or names at this juncture, what do you feel you can tell us about Hong Kong?
- The BOURNE ULTIMATUM by Robert Ludlum-
The furniture was quite in harmony with the room, consisting of three rickety old chairs, a painted table in one corner, on which lay books and papers thick with dust (showing how long it was since they had been touched), and, finally a large and very ugly sofa with ragged covers.
"Look out of the window in about ten minutes and you'll see," the woman answered.
"We met in another long look."
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Turned out to be a relatively short sentence for this book.
'There's going to be a fourth soon, I believe.'
Brown never made it out of Harpers Ferry, nor did he even appear to have a plan for escaping, let alone arming hundreds of thousands of slaves.
From her grove, Sarai could also see a large part of the city and, towering over it like a mountain, the ziggurat, the Sublime Platform.
- Sarah by Marek Halter -
"After reading these descriptions, passage from the Book of Mormon jumped out at me and took on new significance."
Taken from: What's on the Other Side: by Brent L. Top
"And I am dumb to tell a weather's wind"
From "The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower" by Dylan Thomas
'And there was much to encourage trust in her husband's authority.'
Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
"No sooner had there eyes fallen on the ladies than they were themselves espied of them; whereupon quoth Pampinea, smiling, "See, fortune favorable to our beginnings and hath thrown in our way young men of worth and discretion, who will gladly be to us both guides and servitors, an we disdain not accept of them in that capacity".
Giovanni Boccaccio The Decameron
"His reward and his time had now come."
Barchester Towers (1857) by Anthony Trollope
I lost count of the pages i was just reading
"It was as though the sister whom I had never laid eyes on, who before I was born had vanished into the stronghold of an ogre or a djinn, was now to return through a dispensation of one day only, to the world which she had quitted, and I a child of three, waked early for the occasion, dressed and curled as if for Christmas, for an occasion more serious than Christmas even, since now and at last this ogre or djinn had agreed for the sake of the wife and the children to come to church, to permit them at least to approach the vicinity of salvation, to at least give Ellen one chance to struggle with him for those children’s souls on a battleground where she could be supported not only by Heaven but by her own family and people of her own kind; yes, even for the moment submitting himself to redemption, or lacking that, at least chivalrous for the instant even though still unregenerate."
God......
Absalom, Absalom! (1936) by William Faulkner
"She was annoyed with me for going down to the landing by myself, but she didn't make a big deal about it, it being my birthday and all."
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
"Your slave, John Graham Bretton."
Villette (1853) by Charlotte Bronte.
"And seldom was a snood amid such wild luxuriant ringlets hid, whose glossy black to shame might bring the plumage of a raven's wing; and seldom o'er a breast so fair, mantled a plaid with modest care, and never brooch the folds combined above a heart more good and kind."
The Lady of the Lake - Scott
From Bernard Knox's Introduction to The Odyssey (Robert Fagles' translation).Quote:
What prompted his comment "without force" is clearly his preference for the sustained heroic level of the Iliad over what he terms the Odyssey's presentation of "the fabulous and incredible" as well as the realistic description of life in the farms and palace of Odysseus' domain, which, he says, "forms a kind of of comedy of manners."
"They told the Spaniards that the colossal monuments that stood deserted about the the landscape were erected by a race of white gods which had lived there before the Incas themselves became rulers"
Thor Heyerdahl Kon-Tiki
"Yes," she thought, "he is happy and content, but what of me?..."
-Anna Karenina
I LOVE THAT BOOK. *sigh*Quote:
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She slid it over her head, then carried all her treasures back to Port where she arranged them on the central table.
- The Slow Regard of Silent Things - Patrick Rothfuss -
"The commissary knocked thrice, every blow seeming to Dantes as if struck on his heart"
Dumas; The Count on Monte Cristo
''Adesea sunt tentat să-mi plăsmuiesc o altă genealogie, să-mi schimb strămoșii, să mi-i aleg dintre aceia care, la vremea lor, au știut să semene doliul printre popoare, la antipodul străbunilor mei, alor noștri, umiliți și loviți, copleșiți de mizerii, amestecați cu țărână și gemând sub blestemul veacurilor.''
''I'm often tempted to forge myself another genealogy, to change my ancestors, to choose them from those who, at their time, knew to sow the mourning throughout peoples, at the antipode of my forefathers, of ours, humiliated and hit, overwhelmed by miseries, mixed with dust, and moaning under the curse of the ages.''
E.M. Cioran, Istorie și Utopie / History and Utopia
"Medieval Jewish sholars put the date of the Creation at 3760 BC."- Good Omens, Terry Pratched & Neil Gaiman
Greg's family owned two neurotic cats that were always screeching when they got under his feet or sending his heart into overdrive when they rocketed out from under his bed.
- The Sell House - Linda Newbery -