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
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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