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Timmy’s voice and the rattle of the train’s subterraneous plunge were alike drowned in awful and bewildering clamour. A pandemonium of sound, latrant, mugient, reboatory, and beyond all words, reverberated between the walls of the tunnel.
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Michael Innes is the archetype of the late Golden Age "donnish" mystery writers, throwing around words such as "minatory", "exiguous", "nugatory" with scholarly abandon. Here he outdoes himself: these words weren't even in my usually reliable New Oxford Dictionary. They all mean a roaring or lowing sound, as of animals.
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“The sense of beauty puts a brake upon destruction, by representing its object as irreplaceable. When the world looks back at me with my eyes, as it does in aesthetic experience, it is also addressing me in another way. Something is being revealed to me, and I am being made to stand still and absorb it. It is of course nonsense to suggest that there are naiads in the trees and dryads in the groves. What is revealed to me in the experience of beauty is a fundamental truth about being - the truth that being is a gift, and receiving it is a task. This is a truth of theology that demands exposition as such.”
― Face of God: The Gifford Lectures
― Face of God: The Gifford Lectures
“Les miroirs feraient bien de réfléchir un peu plus avant de renvoyer les images.”
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“A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is 'merely relative,' is asking you not to believe him. So don’t. Deconstruction deconstructs itself, and disappears up its own behind, leaving only a disembodied smile and a faint smell of sulphur.”
― Modern Philosophy: An Introduction and Survey
― Modern Philosophy: An Introduction and Survey
“The consolation of imaginary things is not imaginary consolation.”
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“GK Chesterton once said that to criticise religion because it leads people to kill each other is like criticising love because it has the same effect. All the best things we have, when abused, will cause bad things to happen. The need for sacrifice, to obey, to make a gift of your life is in all of us and it’s a deep thing. In the Islamic world today, people are trying to rejoin themselves to an antiquated and ancient faith and the result is massive violence when they encounter people who have not done that. We’d say that sense of sacrifice is good but only if you’re sacrificing your own life; once you sacrifice another’s life you’ve overstepped the mark.”
― The Soul of the World
― The Soul of the World
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