Perhaps I couldn’t even have wanted more than that, couldn’t have accepted less.
-William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!
Perhaps I couldn’t even have wanted more than that, couldn’t have accepted less.
-William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!
Check out my article on the best reasons to dive into the classics, published yesterday over at Punchnel’s webzine:
http://www.punchnels.com/features/10-reasons-you-should-be-reading-the-classics/
There are no gifs (this isn’t Buzzfeed), but Severus Snape is lurking somewhere in the hyperlinks. Enjoy!
Almost it would appear that it is useless in such confusion to ask the night those questions as to what, and why, and wherefore, which tempt the sleeper from his bed to seek an answer.
-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
Who then may trust the dice, at Fortune’s throw?
-Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Though he ‘did’ his classics and mathematics, he was not pre-eminent in them. It was said of him, that Lydgate could do anything he liked, but he had certainly not yet liked to do anything remarkable.
-George Eliot, Middlemarch
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