Riders in the Chariot
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Don't die without reading.
In order to tempt readers into Riders in the Chariot, I can think of no better strategy than simply sampling White's prose:
- ...the travesty of experience.
- ... they had been taught firmly to suppress, like wind in company, the rise of unreason in their minds.
- Reason finally holds a gun at its head - and does not always miss.
- Miss Hare continued, "I still have to discover. Perhaps somebody will tell me. And show me at the same time how to distinguish with certainty between good and evil."
- Happy are the men who are able to tread transtional paths, scarcely looking to left or to right and without distinguishing an end.
- ...faith is never faith unless it is to be wrestled with.
- To abandon self is, after all, to accept the course that offers.
- Everything has always happened before. Except to children.
- I would like to persuade you that the simple acts we have learnt to perform daily are the best protection against evil.
- ...he shuddered to realiuze that there could never be an end to the rescue of men from the rubble of their own ideas.
- Children and chairs conversed with him intimately.
White is witty, humorous, philosophical, and gently ironic in about equal measure. He constitutes an entire literary world on his own. An Australian national treasure.
In order to tempt readers into Riders in the Chariot, I can think of no better strategy than simply sampling White's prose:
- ...the travesty of experience.
- ... they had been taught firmly to suppress, like wind in company, the rise of unreason in their minds.
- Reason finally holds a gun at its head - and does not always miss.
- Miss Hare continued, "I still have to discover. Perhaps somebody will tell me. And show me at the same time how to distinguish with certainty between good and evil."
- Happy are the men who are able to tread transtional paths, scarcely looking to left or to right and without distinguishing an end.
- ...faith is never faith unless it is to be wrestled with.
- To abandon self is, after all, to accept the course that offers.
- Everything has always happened before. Except to children.
- I would like to persuade you that the simple acts we have learnt to perform daily are the best protection against evil.
- ...he shuddered to realiuze that there could never be an end to the rescue of men from the rubble of their own ideas.
- Children and chairs conversed with him intimately.
White is witty, humorous, philosophical, and gently ironic in about equal measure. He constitutes an entire literary world on his own. An Australian national treasure.
posted by The Mind of BlackOxford @ April 16, 2016
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