Then the question began to live under my blankets: How did lesbianism begin? What were the symptoms? The public library gave infor...mation on the finished lesbian--and that woefully sketchy--but on the growth of a lesbian, there was nothing. I did discover that the difference between hermaphrodites and lesbians was that hermaphrodites were "born that way." It was impossible to determine whether lesbians budded gradually, or burst into being with a suddenness that dismayed them as much as it repelled society.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Oh André, I get so scared sometimes. The suddenness of our age! Electronics, rockets, earth satellites, supersonic flight, and no...w this.... Everything's going so fast, I'm just not ready to take it all in. It's, it's all so quick.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
On a huge hill, Cragged, and steep, Truth stands, and he that will... Reach her, about must, and about must go; And what the hill's suddenness resists, win so; Yet strive so, that before age, death's twilight, Thy Soul rest, for none can work in that night. To will, implies delay, therefore now do: Hard deeds, the body's pains; hard knowledge too The mind's endeavours reach, and mysteries Are like the Sun, dazzling, yet plain to all eyes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It will be agreed that the essential difference between humour and wit is that, whereas wit is always intentional, humour is alway...s unintentional. Wit possess an object; it is critical, aggressive, and often cruel; it depends for its success upon condescension, revelation, suddenness, and surprise, and it necessitates a quick and deliberate motion of the mind; it is not a private indulgence but invariably needs an audience; it is thus a social phenomenon. Humour on the other hand has no object; it does not seek to wound others, it seeks only to protect the self; it is not a sword but a shield. So far from entailing an expenditure of intellectual or psychic effort, it seeks to economise that effort; it does not depend on suddenness or surprise, but is contemplative, conciliatory, ruminating; and it is largely a private indulgence and does not require an audience for its enjoyment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »