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04-28-2008, 06:00 AM
For the hundreds eager to hear more of the pile of miscellany I collected in the seventies, unedited and transcribed as is or was:
You may talk as other people do; you may say 'Sir, I am your most humble servant.' You are not his most humble servant. You may say, 'These are bad times; it is a melancholy thing to be reserved to such times.' You don't mind the times. You tell a man, 'I am sorry you had such bad weather the last day of your journey, and were so much wet.' You don;t care sixpence if he is wet or dry. You may talk in this manner; it is a mode of talking in society; but don;t think foolishly.
Samuel Johnson
...he experienced in his consciousness that moment when music breaks glass...
John Cheever
He had been bitten gravely. ---The train pulled out just as he brought his car to the station, and the longing he felt for the coaches as they drew stubbornly away from him reminded him of the humors of love.
John Cheever
He would be spared nothing, then, it seemed, that a fool is not spared, ravening lewdness, this hurt to his feelings that put tears in his eyes, even scorn -- for he could see clearly now the image he presented, his arms spread over the steering wheel and his head buried in them for love.
Trade could not be managed by those who manage it, if it were difficult.
Johnson
Methinks there be not impossibilities enough in Religion for an active faith.
Thomas Browne
They neither work nor weep; in their shape is their reason.
Virginia Woolf
Drunkenness is said to be a substitute for art; why, then, should artists get drunk?
A Swiss German girl gave me the following rhyme, which she wrote in my book in Swiss German, and I tried to translate it. Here it is, minus umlauts, as nearly as I can make it out:
Hans Dampf in Schnage lock
HAd alles was es will.
Was es will das hat es nod
Und was es had das will es nod.
Hans Dampf in Schnage lock
Had alles was es will.
Hans Dampf lived in a shell
Had what he liked and liked it well.
What he had he wished he didn't
ANd what he hadn't he wished he did.
HAns Dampf lived in a shell
Had what he liked and like it well
(Corrections welcome.)
To fall in love is create a religion whih has a fallible god.
Borges
...Bergson's well known theory of the comic: the imposition of geometrical form on the formless contents of consciousness.
[Harry Levin]
One of the things in my life I have been unhappy about is that I was not better looking than I actually was. On the other hand one of the things I Have been pleased about is that at least I was as good-looking as I was.
Isaak Dinesen
....minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic.
H.G. Wells
Loud, heap miseries upon us yet entwine our hearts with laughters low!
Finnegans Wake
(Original Post) (http://crowleycrow.livejournal.com/85859.html)
You may talk as other people do; you may say 'Sir, I am your most humble servant.' You are not his most humble servant. You may say, 'These are bad times; it is a melancholy thing to be reserved to such times.' You don't mind the times. You tell a man, 'I am sorry you had such bad weather the last day of your journey, and were so much wet.' You don;t care sixpence if he is wet or dry. You may talk in this manner; it is a mode of talking in society; but don;t think foolishly.
Samuel Johnson
...he experienced in his consciousness that moment when music breaks glass...
John Cheever
He had been bitten gravely. ---The train pulled out just as he brought his car to the station, and the longing he felt for the coaches as they drew stubbornly away from him reminded him of the humors of love.
John Cheever
He would be spared nothing, then, it seemed, that a fool is not spared, ravening lewdness, this hurt to his feelings that put tears in his eyes, even scorn -- for he could see clearly now the image he presented, his arms spread over the steering wheel and his head buried in them for love.
Trade could not be managed by those who manage it, if it were difficult.
Johnson
Methinks there be not impossibilities enough in Religion for an active faith.
Thomas Browne
They neither work nor weep; in their shape is their reason.
Virginia Woolf
Drunkenness is said to be a substitute for art; why, then, should artists get drunk?
A Swiss German girl gave me the following rhyme, which she wrote in my book in Swiss German, and I tried to translate it. Here it is, minus umlauts, as nearly as I can make it out:
Hans Dampf in Schnage lock
HAd alles was es will.
Was es will das hat es nod
Und was es had das will es nod.
Hans Dampf in Schnage lock
Had alles was es will.
Hans Dampf lived in a shell
Had what he liked and liked it well.
What he had he wished he didn't
ANd what he hadn't he wished he did.
HAns Dampf lived in a shell
Had what he liked and like it well
(Corrections welcome.)
To fall in love is create a religion whih has a fallible god.
Borges
...Bergson's well known theory of the comic: the imposition of geometrical form on the formless contents of consciousness.
[Harry Levin]
One of the things in my life I have been unhappy about is that I was not better looking than I actually was. On the other hand one of the things I Have been pleased about is that at least I was as good-looking as I was.
Isaak Dinesen
....minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic.
H.G. Wells
Loud, heap miseries upon us yet entwine our hearts with laughters low!
Finnegans Wake
(Original Post) (http://crowleycrow.livejournal.com/85859.html)