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innashpitzberg5 октября 2012 г.Читать далееPerhaps history this century, thought Eigenvalue, is rippled with gathers in its fabric such that if we are situated, as Stencil seemed to be, at the bottom of a fold, it's impossible to determine warp, woof or pattern anywhere else. By virtue, however, of existing in one gather it is assumed there are others, compartmented off into sinuous cycles each of which come to assume greater importance than the weave itself and destroy any continuity. Thus it is that we are charmed by the funny-looking automobiles of the '30's, the curious fashions of the '20's, the peculiar moral habits of our grandparents. We produce and attend musical comedies about them and are conned into a false memory, a phony nostalgia about what they were. We are accordingly lost to any sense of a continuous tradition. Perhaps if we lived on a crest, things would be different. We could at least see.
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For those who keep an eye on such things, bright little flags had begun to appear toward the end of Eisenhower's first term, fluttering bravely in history's gay turbulence, signaling that a new and unlikely profession was gaining moral ascendancy. Back around the turn of the century, psychoanalysis had usurped from the priesthood the role of father-confessor. Now, it seemed, the analyst in his turn was about to be deposed by, of all people, the dentist.
874 - innashpitzberg4 октября 2012 г.
On the way downtown on the subway he decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
874 - innashpitzberg3 октября 2012 г.
Merely train's hardware for any casual onlooker, Waldetar in private life was exactly this mist of philosophy, imagination and continual worry over his several relationships - not only with God, but also with Nita, with their children, with his own history. There's no organized effort about it but here remains a grand joke on all visitors to Baedeker's world: the permanent residents are actually humans in disguise.
873 - innashpitzberg3 октября 2012 г.
Anything that can get drunk, he reasoned, must have some soul. Perhaps this is all "soul" means. Events between soul and soul are not God's direct province: they are under the influence either of Fortune, or of virtue.
8150 - innashpitzberg1 октября 2012 г.
Herbert Stencil, like small children at a certain stage and Henry Adams in the Education, as well as assorted autocrats since time out of mind, always referred to himself in the third person. This helped "Stencil" appear as only one among a repertoire of identities.
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As spread thighs are to the libertine, flights of migratory birds to the ornithologist, the working part of his tool bit to the production machinist, so was the letter V to young Stencil. He would dream perhaps once a week that it had all been a dream, and that now he'd awakened to discover the pursuit of V. was merely a scholarly quest after all, an adventure of the mind, in the tradition of The Golden Bough or The White Goddess.
868 - innashpitzberg30 сентября 2012 г.
He and Rachel, both covered with lettuce leaves, looked at each other, wary. «How romantic,» she said. «For all know you may be the man of my dreams. Take that lettuce leaf off your face so I can see.» Like doffing a cap – remembering his place – he removed the leaf.
«No,» she said, «you're not him.»
«Maybe,» said Profane, «we can try it next time with a fig leaf.»869 - innashpitzberg30 сентября 2012 г.
«What do you want to go and do that for?»
«Man, I want to die, is all,» cried Ploy.
«Don't you know,» said Dahoud, «that life is the most precious possession you have?»
«Ho, ho,» said Ploy through his tears. «Why?»
«Because,» said Dahoud, «without it, you'd be dead.»
«Oh,» said Ploy. He thought about this for a week. He calmed down, started to go on liberty again.867 - innashpitzberg30 сентября 2012 г.
chapter one
In which Benny Profane, a schlemihl and human yo-yo, gets to an apocheir
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