Here is a dirty book worth reading ... a bawdy which will be very useful to put Wyndham and J.J. into their proper cubby holes; ca...use Miller is sore and without kinks.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hell is out of fashion--institutional hells at any rate. The populated infernos of the 20th century are more private affairs, the ...gaps between the bars are the sutures of one's own skull.... A valid hell is one from which there is a possibility of redemption, even if this is never achieved, the dungeons of an architecture of grace whose spires point to some kind of heaven. The institutional hells of the present century are reached with one-way tickets, marked Nagasaki and Buchenwald, worlds of terminal horror even more final than the grave.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I do not think I had ever seen a nastier-looking man.... Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those ...of an unsuccessful rapist.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Feminism was recognized by the average man as a conflict in which it was impossible for a man, as a chivalrous gentleman, as a res...pecter of the rights of little nations (like little Belgium), as a highly evolved citizen of a highly civilized community, to refuse the claim of this better half to self-determination.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
With a new familiarity and a flesh-creeping "homeliness" entirely of this unreal, materialistic world, where all "sentiment" is co...arsely manufactured and advertised in colossal sickly captions, disguised for the sweet tooth of a monstrous baby called "the Public," the family as it is, broken up on all hands by the agency of feminist and economic propaganda, reconstitutes itself in the image of the state.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is seldom... explicit. They are utilitarian and political, the instruments of smooth-running government.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Men were only made into "men" with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally "a man" any more than the... woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Prostration is our natural position. A wormlike movement from a spot of sunlight to a spot of shade, and back, is the type of move...ment that is natural to men.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »