A little fishing was done in the port, and a quantity of strolling about by night, and looking seaward: particularly at those times when the tide was made, and was near flood.
ATOTC ~ Dickens
A little fishing was done in the port, and a quantity of strolling about by night, and looking seaward: particularly at those times when the tide was made, and was near flood.
ATOTC ~ Dickens
I have two books next to me. The first is from POINT COUNTER POINT by Huxley"
"In the laboratory, at his desk, he was as old as science itself."
THE LOGIC OF VIOLENCE IN CIVIL WAR, by Stathis Kalyvas:
"Unlike civil wars, riots tend to be a predominantly urban phenomenon, lacking significant retaliation, heavily influenced by institutional (often electoral) incentives, and facilitated by crowd anonymity; the ratio of perpetrators to victims tends to be inverse in riots ad civil war: in the former participation is public and the victims are an unlucky few, whereas in the latter a few participate directly in victimizing an unlucky public."
*whew*...
"Each was full of a venomous-green dust." -Herta Muller, 'The Land of Green Plums'.
She is on the front doorstep, talking to Joseph, whose caravan is parked with five others by the side of the road, two miles from here.
I was eager to finish Moll Flanders so I could put another one into this thread. I know, I'm strange... I like wacko things! :D
'Er war schon fast ganz umgedreht, als er sich, immer auf dieses Zischen horchend, sogar irrte und sich wieder ein Stück zurückdrehte.'
'He had already almost turned hmself, when he, still listening to this sizzling noise, made a mistake and turned himself back a little.'
Die Verwandlung, Franz Kafka.
I hung it up in net sacks and although it went green on the outside the middle was good.
My Lively Lady, Sir Alec Rose.
Story of his single handed circumnavigation of the world.
Doing the 4th sentence of the 43rd page since I've already quoted this book:
"Tradition takes what it 'transmits' is made so inaccessible, proximally and for the most part, that it rather becomes concealed."
-Being and Time, Martin Heidigger
"It has therefore empirical principles, although, at the same time, it is in so far general, that it applies to the exercise of the understanding, without regard to the difference of objects."
-Critique of Pure Reason, Immanuel Kant
"And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land."
-The Bible
"Mathematicians and philosophers had begun to have serious doubts about whether even the most concrete theories, such as the study of whole numbers (number theory), were built upon solid foundations."
-Godel, Escher, Bach , Douglas Hoffstander
"The oven smokes in cheerless October / A BAD COLD HE HAD OF IT JUST THE WORST TIME / JUST THE WORST TIME OF THE YEAR FOR A REVOLUTION / Through the suburbs blooming cement goes / Dr. Zhivago in sorrow / for his wolves / IN THE WINTER SOMETIMES THEY CAME INTO THE VILLAGE AND TORE APART A PEASANT."
-Hamletmachine, Heiner Mueller
Benedictus vinum et unguentum desiderat.
It's a Beginner's Latin book.
"You will understand that you cannot be permitted to see her, no, not in any circumstances; accordingly I have required her to be positioned behind that sheet."
Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie.
What! a man who was trying to slip a noose over every neck in the Republic that he might tighten it at his pleasure!
Romola by George Eliot
But the insult felt on both sides was so great that there was no question of reconciliation and the Price, utterly furious, used every possible means to turn the matter to his advantage, which in essence meant only one thing - to deprive his former steward of his last means of subsistence.
He had been working for days on a study of St. John Baptizing the Neophyte and was upset becasue he could not clarify his concept oof Jesues.
The Agony and the Ecstasy ~ Irving Stone
He wrote a book on natural philosophy in the style of his Ionian predecessors, acknowledging a particular debt to Anaximenes; it was the first such treatise, we are told, to contain diagrams.
From: A Brief History Of Western Philosophy by Anthony Kenny
'Ye can smell it.'
The Dragon Charmer -Jan Siegel
But a villainous affair it is, and will one day so blend and confound us all together, that no one shall be able to stand up and swear, "That his own great grand father was the man who did either this or that"
(Laurence Sterne, "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman")
first post here, hi everybody!