And a bottom which was the Platonic ideal of all English bottomry.
Don't ever underestimate people, don't ever underestimate the pleasure they receive from viewing pain that is not their own... Pain by itself is just Pain. But Pain + Distance can = entertainment, voy...
And she had not paid a high price. Only love. Just love. And whatever Corinthians might say, love is not such a hard thing to forfeit, not if you’ve never really felt it. She did not love Archie, but...
A) Are the skies you sleep under likely to open up for weeks on end?(b) Is the ground you walk on likely to tremble and split?(c) Is there a chance (and please check the box, no matter how small that...
Do me this one, great favor, Jones. If ever you hear anyone, when you are back home...if ever you hear anyone speak of the East, and here his voice plummeted a register, and the tone was full and sad,...
Yes, with the mothers she had to make a little more effort, drowning them in language until they understood how out of their depth they were and the thin stream of their objections was completely subs...
Who might have run faster than a speeding train, if they had been free to do so, but for whom, born in the wrong time, in the wrong place, all stops were closed, who were never even permitted to enter...
When she’d finished she would give one of four possible judgments. Zippy—which was good; Important—which was very good; Controversial—which could be either good or bad, you never knew; or Lidderary, w...
This light was something else again. It buzzed and held you in its heat, it was thick, alive with pollen and insects and birds, and because nothing higher than one story interrupted its path, it gave...
The sheer beauty of the voice, its monumental dose of soul, the pain implicit within it, bypassed all my conscious opinions, my critical intelligence or sense of the sentimental,
Our denuded networked selves don’t look more free, they just look more owned.
Mainly that it was important to treat oneself as a kind of stranger, to remain unattached and unprejudiced in your own case.
In fact the Mail’s campaign is a chilling lesson in how a superficial manipulation of liberal identity politics can be used to silence a genuinely protesting voice, one that is trying to speak for us...
Can remember thinking, if they can do this to women? Do they have the power to reprogram their mothers? To make their mothers into the kinds of women their younger selves would not even recognize?
Begins with you walking towards a huge pit. The pit is on the other side of a precipice, which you cannot see over until you are right at its edge. Your death is awaiting you in that pit. You don’t kn...
As if we were both trying to get on a see-saw at the same time—neither of us pressed too hard and a delicate equilibrium was allowed to persist.
[…] A brother don’t need a gate – he jumps the fence. That’s street.’‘Again, please?’ said Howard.‘Street, street,’ bellowed Zora. It’s like, being street, knowing the street – in Levi’s sad little wo...
[Forster] quotes approvingly from this discussion, from The Magic Flute [by Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson]Lord Buddha was your gospel true?True and False. What was true in it?Selflessness and Love. What...
You came in with a picky head, uneven and coarse, disguised underneath a baseball cap, and you left swiftly afterwards a new man, smelling sweetly of coconut oil and with a cut as sharp and clean as a...
Yes, yes, many months ago. But your mother is someone who will always be in my life. She's not the kind of person who leaves your life when she's in it. Anyway, when someone you care about gets ill, a...