quotable quotes from Friel/Forster/Waugh
i think everyone should read Passage to India and understand it on a philosophical level. read on and you will understand why...
Decline and Fall
"Am I going to die?" asked Tangent as he fills his mouth with cake.
"Tangent's foot has swollen and turned black" said Beste-Chetwynde with relish.
ahhh...my favourites for this book
Grimes is "in the soup" and blames it on his "Temperment" but he will survive cause he is both a "cad" and an "immortal!"
"engulfed in the mystery of Egdon Mire, he will rise again somewhere at sometime, shaking from his limbs the musty integuements of the tomb."
Prendy's "blood thirsty death" passed unnoticed and is discussed in a funny adaptation of a hymn, "damn lucky it was prendgast might have been you or me!"
"elimination of the human element from the consideration of form."
"Man is never beautiful, he is never happy, except when he becomes the channel for the distribution of mechanical forces."
Translations
Urbs Antiqua Fuit...a race spring from Trojan blood to someday overthrow these Tyrian towers a people - late regem belloque superbum (kings of broad realms and proud in war.)
it is possible for a civilization to be imprisoned in a linguistic contour that no longer matches the landscape of fact.
certain cultures expend on their vocabularies and syntax acquisitive energies and ostentations entirely lacking in their material lives.
bossom? diana, the huntress, she had two great bossom.
and of course... to remember everything is a form of madness. confusion is an ignoble condition.
Passage to India
Pathos, piety, courage, they all exist, but they are identical and so is filth. everything exists, nothing has value.
Poor little christianity and all its divine words from "let there be light" to "it is finished" only amounted to boum
nothing embraces india..nothing, nothing...
constrictedness of the crude version of the christian cosmos.
Plotinus - Enneads - forster's inspiration " Seeking him: seek nothing of him outside within is sought which follows upon him: Himself do not attempt"
"God is not in space, as art depicts, space is in God."
"God is everywhere present, but absent from all save those with a kindred power to see as far as God may at all be seen."
"the individual in any form, though more greatly accesible to our cognizance, does not in fact exist."
"absence implies presence, absence does not mean non existance."
"God is, was not, is not, was."
"when evil occurs, it expresses the whole universe , similarly when good occurs."
John Drew "Language forces Forster, no less than Plotinus, to use the terminology of negation."
after centuries of carnal embracement, man is no nearer to understanding man.
the flames approach and strive to unite but cannot because one breathes air, the other stone.
perhaps it is futile for men to initate their own unity, they do but widen the gulfs between them by the attempt
Decline and Fall
"Am I going to die?" asked Tangent as he fills his mouth with cake.
"Tangent's foot has swollen and turned black" said Beste-Chetwynde with relish.
ahhh...my favourites for this book
Grimes is "in the soup" and blames it on his "Temperment" but he will survive cause he is both a "cad" and an "immortal!"
"engulfed in the mystery of Egdon Mire, he will rise again somewhere at sometime, shaking from his limbs the musty integuements of the tomb."
Prendy's "blood thirsty death" passed unnoticed and is discussed in a funny adaptation of a hymn, "damn lucky it was prendgast might have been you or me!"
"elimination of the human element from the consideration of form."
"Man is never beautiful, he is never happy, except when he becomes the channel for the distribution of mechanical forces."
Translations
Urbs Antiqua Fuit...a race spring from Trojan blood to someday overthrow these Tyrian towers a people - late regem belloque superbum (kings of broad realms and proud in war.)
it is possible for a civilization to be imprisoned in a linguistic contour that no longer matches the landscape of fact.
certain cultures expend on their vocabularies and syntax acquisitive energies and ostentations entirely lacking in their material lives.
bossom? diana, the huntress, she had two great bossom.
and of course... to remember everything is a form of madness. confusion is an ignoble condition.
Passage to India
Pathos, piety, courage, they all exist, but they are identical and so is filth. everything exists, nothing has value.
Poor little christianity and all its divine words from "let there be light" to "it is finished" only amounted to boum
nothing embraces india..nothing, nothing...
constrictedness of the crude version of the christian cosmos.
Plotinus - Enneads - forster's inspiration " Seeking him: seek nothing of him outside within is sought which follows upon him: Himself do not attempt"
"God is not in space, as art depicts, space is in God."
"God is everywhere present, but absent from all save those with a kindred power to see as far as God may at all be seen."
"the individual in any form, though more greatly accesible to our cognizance, does not in fact exist."
"absence implies presence, absence does not mean non existance."
"God is, was not, is not, was."
"when evil occurs, it expresses the whole universe , similarly when good occurs."
John Drew "Language forces Forster, no less than Plotinus, to use the terminology of negation."
after centuries of carnal embracement, man is no nearer to understanding man.
the flames approach and strive to unite but cannot because one breathes air, the other stone.
perhaps it is futile for men to initate their own unity, they do but widen the gulfs between them by the attempt
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