Books that have become classics--books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal--always remind me of retired c...olonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark, The vacant interstellar spaces, the vacant into the vacant,... The captains, merchant bankers, eminent men of letters, The generous patrons of art, the statesmen and the rulers, Distinguished civil servants, chairmen of many committees, Industrial lords and petty contractors, all go into the dark....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The menu was stewed liver and rice, fricassee of bones, and shredded dog biscuit. The dinner was greatly appreciated; the guests a...te until they could eat no more, and Elisha Dyer's dachshund so overtaxed its capacities that it fell unconscious by its plate and had to be carried home.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In many ways, Twain and Waugh were strikingly similar. Even within the group of great humorists, they belong together. Both anti-e...rotic imaginations, they stress male comradeships and represent love-relationships most conventionally and sentimentally. They both show society as dominated by fools and bores, and fate as characterized by betrayal and disaster--life as subordinate to death. For that reason, no doubt, both are much interested in militarism and the machinery of death, as well as in the military and manly virtues. Both men tell jokes that belong to the bar where magistrates gather, managers, captains, men who take responsibility for law and order. Both were quickly irritated by most real clubs and bars. One might say that both belonged to the same cultural type.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If the heart has its reasons, perhaps the body Has its own lumbering sort of carnal spirit,... Felt in the tingling bruises of collision, And known to captains as esprit de corps.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The tumult and the shouting dies; The Captains and the Kings depart:... Still stands Thine ancient sacrifice, An humble and a contrite heart. Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget--lest we forget!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"He is so polite!"MYes, he is always prepared with a biscuit for Cerberus and is so timid that he assumes everyone is Cerberus, ev...en you and me--that is his "politeness."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let four captains Bear Hamlet like a soldier to the stage,... For he was likely, had he been put on, To have proved most royally.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The one invulnerable man among Crude captains, the naked majesty, if you like,... Of bird-nest arches and of rain-stained-vaults.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »