“Having now been in the trenches for five months, I had passed my prime. For the first three weeks, an officer was of little use in the front line... Between three weeks and four weeks he was at his best, unless he happened to have any particular bad shock or sequence of shocks. Then his usefulness gradually declined as neurasthenia developed. At six months he was still more or less all right; but by nine or ten months, unless he had been given a few weeks' rest on a technical course, or in hospital, he usually became a drag on the other company officers. After a year or fifteen months he was often worse than useless.”
― Goodbye to All That
― Goodbye to All That
“Bigend, a formidable practitioner of the other side of this dance, seems genuinely incapable of imagining that others wouldn't want to do whatever it is that he wants them to. Margot had cited this as both the most problematic and, she admitted, most effective aspect of his sexuality: He approached every partner as though they already had slept together. Just as, Cayce was now finding, in business, every Bigend deal was treated as a done deal, signed and sealed. If you hadn't signed with Bigend, he made you feel as though you had, but somehow had forgotten that you had.
There was something amorphous, froglike, about his will: It spread out around you, tenuous, almost invisible; you found yourself moving, mysteriously, in directions other than your own.”
― Pattern Recognition
There was something amorphous, froglike, about his will: It spread out around you, tenuous, almost invisible; you found yourself moving, mysteriously, in directions other than your own.”
― Pattern Recognition
“But scholars (rightly in principle, if often dreadfully wrongly in practice) abhor vacuums as much as nature does, and sometimes do naughty things to fill
them.”
― Historical Linguistics and Language Change
them.”
― Historical Linguistics and Language Change
“Najvećim delom sveta danas krekeću pare,
Umesto plodnih njiva dremaju smrdljive bare;
Najvećim delom sveta danas su jedino siti
Hulje i paraziti.
Ostali narod je pesak,
O njemu ne vode brigu;
Vetar goni,
Pa se pita,
Pa se pita,
Ko te pita!”
― Podvizi družine "Pet petlića"
Umesto plodnih njiva dremaju smrdljive bare;
Najvećim delom sveta danas su jedino siti
Hulje i paraziti.
Ostali narod je pesak,
O njemu ne vode brigu;
Vetar goni,
Pa se pita,
Pa se pita,
Ko te pita!”
― Podvizi družine "Pet petlića"
“Seth was giving the chauffeur his instructions, and
in this pause just before their adventure really began,
Flora gazed up searchingly at the windows of the farm-
house. ***They were dead as the eyes of fishes,
reflecting the dim, pallid blue of the fading west. The
crenellated line of the roof thrust blind ledges against
a sky into which the infusion of the darkness was
already beginning to seep. The livid silver tongues
of the early stars leaped between the shapes of the
chinmey-pots, backwards and forwards, like idiot
children dancing to a forgotten tune.”
―
in this pause just before their adventure really began,
Flora gazed up searchingly at the windows of the farm-
house. ***They were dead as the eyes of fishes,
reflecting the dim, pallid blue of the fading west. The
crenellated line of the roof thrust blind ledges against
a sky into which the infusion of the darkness was
already beginning to seep. The livid silver tongues
of the early stars leaped between the shapes of the
chinmey-pots, backwards and forwards, like idiot
children dancing to a forgotten tune.”
―
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