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"The mathematics is not very deep, but some interesting facts to dip in and out of.
Some seem totally arbitrary - or entirely consequential - and either way not interesting at all, however." — Jul 15, 2014 03:15PM
"The mathematics is not very deep, but some interesting facts to dip in and out of.
Some seem totally arbitrary - or entirely consequential - and either way not interesting at all, however." — Jul 15, 2014 03:15PM
“Then they began saying, "Get hold of him. Put him in Mercury." Now as you know I have two sculptures by Brancusi and several pretty things and I did not want them to start getting rough, so I said, pacifically, "Dear sweet clodhoppers, if you knew anything of sexual psychology you would know that nothing could give me keener pleasure than to be manhandled by you meaty boys. It would be an ecstasy of the very naughtiest kind. So if any of you wishes to be my partner in joy come and seize me. If, on the other hand, you simply wish to satisfy some obscure and less easily classified libido and see me bathe, come with me quietly, dear louts, to the fountain.”
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“Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?”
― Brideshead Revisited
― Brideshead Revisited
“Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”
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“...for in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.”
― Brideshead Revisited
― Brideshead Revisited
“I have a good mind not to take Aloysius to Venice. I don't want him to meet a lot of horrid Italian bears and pick up bad habits.”
― Brideshead Revisited
― Brideshead Revisited
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