I didn't say anything.
I didn't say anything.
"You're English ain't better than what any other refugee talks."
"Rosa" in Cynthia Ozick's The Shawl
After all, I spend so much time there, all of this raising another question, namely: who will be the first person to see me dead?
"Nineteen fifty-three, the year of the double helix, will come to be seen not only as the end of mystical and obscurantist views of life; Darwinians will see it as the year their subject went finally digital." ~ River Out Of Eden
"From this point of view, if there is a field of historical studies (as I believe) and not merely a group of several fields, it can be nothing less than the whole body of questions about human cultural development, about human culture in its continuity over time; and here we cannot rule out a potential need to develop relatively dateless generalizations, for instance about what may be possible in cultural change, such generalizations are not simply derivable from any other discipline as such, yet they are necessary for studying what is timelessly important about the dated and placed events of human culture."
The Venture of Islam, Conscience and History in a World Civilization. Volume 1, The Classical Age of Islam. By Marshall G.S. Hodgson
Uncle Siegfried had a peculiar sense of humor.
Good Bye To All That
"One would guess (but has the subject actually been investigated?) that even so essentially traditionalist an activity as popular institutional religion has found little difficulty in accepting it."
~ On History
And in his tyme swich a conquerour
But it is love for which I seek you now! What misery!
The Metamorphoses of Ovid
"Arrived now at adolescence I burned for all the satisfactions of hell, and I sank to the animal in a succession of dark lusts: my beauty consumed away, and I stank in Thine eyes, yet was pleasing in my own and anxious to please the eyes of men."
The Confessions of St. Augustine
The drunk just stood there.
"Nope," Metzger said.
"What do you know about this Lasker?" Shpringer says.
"Thou lookest tired and hungry: thou'st been treated ill. Come with me."
The Prince and the Pauper - Mark Twain
On these occasions our two little ones always read for us, and they were regularly served after we had done.