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Quotes from Classics
Hiro:
More Peakean dialogue and musings:
'What is Time, O sister of similar features, that you speak of so subserviently? Are we to be the slaves of the sun, that second-hand, overrated knob of gilt, or of his sister, that fatuous circle of silver paper? A curse upon their ridiculous dictatorship! What say you, Irma, my Irma, wrapped in rumour, Irma, of the incandescent tumour?'
Hiro:
And a moment from Titus Groan's big setpiece:
'His hands were now grappling with one another and it seemed an eternity before the fingers ceased their deadly, interlocked and fratricidal strangling. Yet his panic could have taken no longer than a few moments, for the echo of Irma's scream was still in his ears when he began to loosen his hands.'
Hiro:
Since I'm (still) reading Moby Dick:
For in the mere act of penning my thoughts of this Leviathan, they weary me, and make me faint with their outreaching comprehensiveness of sweep, as if to include the whole circle of the sciences, and all the generations of whales, and men, and mastodons, past, present, and to come, with all the revolving panoramas of empire on earth, and throughout the whole universe, not excluding its suburbs. Such, and so magnifying, is the virtue of a large and liberal theme! We expand to its bulk. To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be who have tried it.
Madness:
Thanks, Hiro. Next time I talk to Cam I'll remind him to check this thread out.
Classic for me anyway, HP Lovecraft:
I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.
Hiro:
--- Quote from: Madness on October 09, 2016, 04:59:32 pm ---Thanks, Hiro. Next time I talk to Cam I'll remind him to check this thread out.
Classic for me anyway, HP Lovecraft:
I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.
--- End quote ---
Nice!
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