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The men and women of the Golden Age, Hesiod wrote, lived in an eternal spring, for hundreds of years, always youthful, fed on acorns from a great oak, on wild fruits, on honey. In the Silver Age, whic...

A.S. Byatt

The men and women of the Golden Age, Hesiod wrote, lived in an eternal spring, for hundreds of years, always youthful, fed on acorns from a great oak, on wild fruits, on honey. In the Silver Age, whic...

Tags: childhood, freud, golden age, hesiod, infantile, nostalgia, prehistory, silver age, victorians

Reading a novel after reading semiotic theory was like jogging empty-handed after jogging with hand weights. What exquisite guilt she felt, wickedly enjoying narrative! Madeleine felt safe with a nine...

Jeffrey Eugenides

Reading a novel after reading semiotic theory was like jogging empty-handed after jogging with hand weights. What exquisite guilt she felt, wickedly enjoying narrative! Madeleine felt safe with a nine...

Tags: literary criticism, literary theory, narrative, nineteenth century, novels, plot, postmodernism, reading, semiotics, victorians

WILDE: Oh — Bosie! (He weeps.) I have to go back to him, you know. Robbie will be furious but it can't be helped. The betrayal of one's friends is a bagatelle in the stakes of love, but the betrayal o...

Tom Stoppard

WILDE: Oh — Bosie! (He weeps.) I have to go back to him, you know. Robbie will be furious but it can't be helped. The betrayal of one's friends is a bagatelle in the stakes of love, but the betrayal o...

Tags: classics, love, oscar wilde, robbie ross, victorians, writing

Sono gli stessi gradini dai quali Jane Austen fa cadere Louisa Musgrove in . Come è romantico. Gli uomini erano romantici... allora.

John Fowles

Sono gli stessi gradini dai quali Jane Austen fa cadere Louisa Musgrove in . Come è romantico. Gli uomini erano romantici... allora.

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