Suppose we make a list of all the matters that we are forbidden to mention. And suppose we call that list our mirror.
Thomas Ludlow, Next to Physics.
The Child is wiser than the Man. Yes, that is a charming turn of phrase. But as a principle upon which to base a society?
Alistair Danning, An Anecdotal History of Radicalism.
I didn’t believe the specific words the actor spoke. But the general idea? Yes.
Kenneth Duckworth, Planes, Lorries, Corridors.
People will erect all sorts of notions, behaviors, politics—and they will vigorously enforce these—just to hold certain thoughts at bay. It is the need to evade.
Christopher Hallows, The Red Herrings of Doom.
It is not what the photograph shows—the subject—that is boring. It is photography that is boring.
Malcolm Scrivener, The Reclining of the West.
…[Henry Miller’s] Trilogy is not literature, but pseudoethnography—a delineation of behavior. What the “modern artist” is like. How he lives. The sex, the drugs, the drinking, the squalor, the sneering mockery aimed at ordinary people.
Palmer Coates, The Dark Afternoon of the Soul.
When the author says “I was in a state of despair,” do we believe him? Was he? Was he in despair? What does it mean to write down that sequence of words?
Ellis Nobodaddy, The Theory of Ice.
The radical just keeps going and going and going. He does not do this out of nobility of purpose. He does it because he cannot think of anything else to do.
Elihu Marras, A World of Smudges and Stains.
Who will be contented in that world where people get what they deserve?
William Davy, Revolutions of the Nineteenth Century.
Let’s delineate a world! By means of sentences! Or has Marx done that for us?
Ernest Ingram, The Unclean Sweep.
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