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War Office, Never say die, understood banking | |
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Mentone, aspirin, agave | |
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Levanto, Chutney, Albania | |
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Siena, Umbria, Etruria | |
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Pisa, asparagus, Italy | |
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Viareggio, Margate, Siren |
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Ouida, Viareggio, Prepotenti | |
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Rome, Protestant cemetery, Fichte | |
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Bellegra, Scanno, Pescasseroli | |
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Valmontone, Artena, Velletri | |
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San Costanzo, skopelos, Strabo | |
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Pescasseroli, Bellegra, San Costanzo | |
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liqueur, Strega, kingfisher | |
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Orvinio, Ferento, Ferentino |
Quite insignificant! Not worth troubling about. Hundreds of decent and honest folk are being destroyed every day; nobody cares tuppence; "one dirty blackmailer more or less - what does it matter to anybody?" There are so many more interesting things on earth. That is why the bishop - ie the reader - here discovers the crime to be a "contemptible little episode", and decides to "relegate it into the category of unimportant events". - Page 169
For although the personalities of the villain and his legal spouse crop up periodically, with ominous insistence, from the first chapter onwards, they are always swallowed up again. The reason is given in the penultimate chapter, where the critic might have found a resume of my intentions and the key to this plot — to wit, that a murder under those particular circumstances is not only justifiable and commendable but — insignificant. - Page 169
... exerted myself to overcome my unpleasant introduction ; and whether it was the agreeable nature of my conversation, or more likely some excellent wine, which we consumed in considerable quantity, we became at last great friends. It was long past midnight ere we closed our bacchanalian orgies, and he ended by stating that he was happy to have made my acquaintance. I found good reasons why the judge had selected him to be my host, as he was one of those who was under the surveillance of the police,... - Page 147
Italy, when there suddenly conies into his head "a wistful intermezzo of Brahms". ' ' It seemed to spring out of the hot earth. Such a natural song, elvishly coaxing! Would I ever play it again ? Neither that, nor any other. "It turned my thoughts, as I went along, to Brahms and led me to understand why no man, who cares only for his fellowcreatures, will ever relish that music. It is an alien tongue, full of deeps and rippling shadows uncomprehended of those who know nothing of lonely places ; full... - Page 263
Warburg. 25*. the smiles and tears of things non-human. This man listened, all alone; he overheard things to which other ears are deaf — things terrible and sweet; the sigh of some wet Naiad by a reedy lake, the pleadings and furies of the genii - of those that whisper in woodlands and caverns by the sea, and ride wailing on thunder-laden clouds, and rock with ripe laughter in sunny wildernesses. Brahms is the test. Whoso dreads solitude will likewise dread his elemental humour. - Page 264
I don't care what I eat," he remarked. So it seemed. I don't care what I eat : what a confession to make ! Is it not the same as saying, I don't care whether I am dirty or clean ? When others tell me this, I regard it as a pose, or a poor joke. This person was manifestly sincere in his profession of faith. He did not care what he ate. He looked it. Were I afflicted with this peculiar ailment, this attenuated form of coprophagia, I should try to keep the hideous secret to myself. - Page 119
An English ViceConsul, at one place, was " quite alarmed at my appearance." Elsewhere he meets a band of peasantwomen who " took fright at my appearance and scampered off in the utmost confusion." And what happened at Taranto ? By the time of his arrival in that town his clothes were already in such a state that " they would scarcely fit an Irish beggar. - Page 65
How to make murder palatable to a bishop : that is the plot. How ? You must unconventionalise him, and instil into his mind the seeds of doubt and revolt. You must shatter his old notions of what is right. It is the only way to achieve this result, and I would defy the critic to point to a single incident or character or conversation in the book which does not further the object in view. - Page 168
is ready to embrace the universe. And, unlike adults, he is never afraid to face his own limitations. - Page 48
It is an alien tongue, full of deeps and rippling shallows uncomprehended of those who know nothing of lonely places ; full of thrills and silences such as are not encountered among the habitations of men. It echoes the multitudinous voice of nature, and distils the smiles and tears of things non-human. This man listened, all alone ; he overheard things to which other ears are deaf — things terrible and sweet ; the sigh of some wet Naiad by a reedy lake, the pleadings and furies of the genii —... - Page 264
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