I can't quite define my aversion to asking questions of strangers. From snatches of family battles which I have heard drifting up ...from railway stations and street corners, I gather that there are a great many men who share my dislike for it, as well as an equal number of women who ... believe it to be the solution to most of this world's problems.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Holland is a dream, Monsieur, a dream of gold and smoke--smokier by day, more gilded by night. And night and day that dream is peo...pled with Lohengrins like these, dreamily riding their black bicycles with high handle-bars, funereal swans constantly drifting throughout the whole country, around the seas, along the canals.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The sea is masculine, the type of active strength. Look, what egg-shells are drifting all over it, each one, like ours, filled wit...h men in ecstasies of terror, alternating with cockney conceit, as the sea is rough or smooth. Is this sad-colored circle an eternal cemetery?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Are you there, Africa with the bulging chest and oblong thigh? Sulking Africa, wrought of iron, in the fire, Africa of the million...s of royal slaves, deported Africa, drifting continent, are you there? Slowly you vanish, you withdraw into the past, into the tales of castaways, colonial museums, the works of scholars.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A pragmatic race, the Japanese appear to have decided long ago that the only reason for drinking alcohol is to become intoxicated ...and therefore drink only when they wish to be drunk. So I went out into the night and the neon and let the crowd pull me along, walking blind, willing myself to be just a segment of that mass organism, just one more drifting chip of consciousness under the geodesics.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...expatriated Americans, even Henry James himself, have always seemed to me somewhat anchorless, rudderless, drifting before the ...wind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The fifties--they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment a...nd its power to satisfy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am gradually drifting to the opinion that this Rebellion can only be crushed finally by either the execution of all the traitors... or the abolition of slavery. Crushed, I mean, so as to remove all danger of its breaking out again in the future.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Shopping malls are liquid TVs for the end of the twentieth century. A whole micro-circuitry of desire, ideology and expenditure fo...r processed bodies drifting through the cyber-space of ultracapitalism.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »