Sunday, June 17, 2012

Commonplace Book

'...The man was evidently happy, and when a man is happy I hold he may very safely be left to his own thoughts. For, next to slapping an infant to make it cease crying, or beating a cripple with his own crutches to make him hurry, I know no more brutal stupidity than awakening the happy from their dream of bliss by talking to them...'

from The Carissima by Lucas Malet (Phase Second, Chapter V)

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