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it's easy to ill-treat the helpless.”
This man who had dropped from the sky was absolutely convinced that he Was indispensable to him, Stavrogin, and was in insolent haste to tell him so.
The sun, too, they say, will go out in its turn.
Pyotr Stepanovitch is treating me abominably!”
and I have a new skin, like a snake.
I've written only one poem, like Gogol's 'The Last Story.'
“But will you take your wife to your house?” “Perhaps so. But that is absolutely nothing to do with you and no concern of yours.” “No concern of mine!” cried the captain. “What about me then?” “Well, certainly you won't come into my house.” “But, you know, I'm a relation.” “One does one's best to escape from such relations. Why should I go on giving you money then? Judge for yourself.” “Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch, Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch, this is impossible. You will think better of it, perhaps? You don't want to lay hands upon. . . . What will people think? What will the world say?”
This reminds me of liberals and social programs. They made a bet on the underclass
“Much I care for your world. I married your sister when the fancy took me, after a drunken dinner, for a bet, and now I'll make it public . . . since that amuses me now.”
“what revolted me most was that this was utterly opposed to civic, and still more to patriotic laws. They suddenly printed that men were to go out with pitchforks, and to remember that those who went out poor in the morning might go home rich at night. Only think of it! It made me shudder, and yet I distributed it.
Distributing propaganda
'Make haste and lock up the churches, abolish God, do away with marriage, destroy the right of inheritance, take up your knives,” that's all, and God knows what it means.
communism the natural sciences
“What's to be done?” Alas,
She was a capitalist and you were a sentimental buffoon in her service.
He amused them all, it is true, by his pranks, which were of a very simple character, at the most a little coarse, but he made it his object to be funny. At one time he would blow his nose in a wonderful way when the professor addressed a question to him, thereby making his schoolfellows and the professor laugh. Another time, in the dormitory, he would act some indecent living picture, to the general applause, or he would play the overture to “Fra Diavolo” with his nose rather skilfully. He was distinguished, too, by intentional untidiness, thinking this, for some reason, witty. In his very
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Ossenburger - The Catcher In The Rye
but made a paper theatre. The curtain drew up, the actors came in, and gesticulated with their arms. There were spectators in the boxes, the orchestra moved their bows across their fiddles by machinery, the conductor waved his baton, and in the stalls officers and dandies clapped their hands. It was all made of cardboard, it was all thought out and executed by Lembke himself. He spent six months over this theatre.
had caught the necessary gloss of modern liberalism.
his Liberal tendencies he had shown him his own private collection of every possible kind of manifesto, Russian and foreign, which he had carefully collected since the year 1859, not simply from a love of collecting but from a laudable interest in them. Pyotr Stepanovitch, seeing his object, expressed the opinion that there was more sense in one line of some manifestoes than in a whole government department,
“But here, for instance, is an incitement to destroy churches.”
We only hold together what you are unsettling, and what, but for us, would go to pieces in all directions. We are not your enemies, not a bit of it. We say to you, go forward, progress, you may even unsettle things, that is, things that are antiquated and in need of reform. But we will keep you, when need be, within necessary limits, and so save you from yourselves, for without us you would set Russia tottering, robbing her of all external decency, while our task is to preserve external decency. Understand that we are mutually essential to one another. In England the Whigs and Tories are in
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activite devorante,
To act with force
“anyway you pave the way for us and prepare for our success.” “Now, who are 'we,' and what success?” said Von Lembke, staring at him in surprise. But he got no answer.
“I heard it from Von Blum.”
Bloom....Ulysses?
She was responsible for a great deal
Part of putting women in charge
There is heard the pompous challenge, the intoxication of future victories. But suddenly mingling with the masterly variations on the national hymn, somewhere from some corner quite close, on one side come the vulgar strains of “Mein lieber Augustin.” The “Marseillaise” goes on unconscious of them. The “Marseillaise” is at the climax of its intoxication with its own grandeur; but Augustin gains strength; Augustin grows more and more insolent, and suddenly the melody of Augustin begins to blend with the melody of the “Marseillaise.”
to brush him aside like a tiresome insignificant fly.
Semyon Yakovlevitch, who was famous not only amongst us but in the surrounding provinces and even in Petersburg and Moscow,
In every misfortune of one's neighbour there is always something cheering for an onlooker — whoever he may be.
why people had begun hanging and shooting themselves among us of late, as though they had suddenly lost their roots, as though the ground were giving way under every one's feet.
Homeric laughter.
“I'm not a parrot, to repeat other people's phrases!” cried Varvara Petrovna, boiling over. “You may be sure I have stored up many sayings of my own. What have you been doing for me all these twenty years? You refused me even the books I ordered for you, though, except for the binder, they would have remained uncut. What did you give me to read when I asked you during those first years to be my guide? Always Kapfig, and nothing but
Charity corrupts giver and taker alike; and, what's more, does not attain it's object, as it only increases poverty. Fathers who don't want to work crowd round the charitable like gamblers round the gambling-table, hoping for gain, while the pitiful farthings that are flung them are a hundred times too little.
Charity ought to be forbidden by law, even in the present state of society. In the new regime there will be no poor at all.” “Oh, what an eruption of borrowed phrases!
Talking points, a parrot....Robinson Crusoe
“Such is my fate. I will speak of the contemptible slave, of the stinking, depraved flunkey who will first climb a ladder with scissors in his hands, and slash to pieces the divine image of the great ideal, in the name of equality, envy, and . . . digestion. Let my curse thunder out upon them, and then — then
Equality, envy and digestion
at the moment we were threatened with cholera; serious outbreaks of cattle plague had appeared in several places; fires were prevalent that summer in towns and villages; whilst among the peasantry foolish rumours of incendiarism grew stronger and stronger. Cases of robbery were twice as numerous as usual. But all this, of course, would have been perfectly ordinary had there been no other and more weighty reasons to disturb the equanimity of Audrey Antonovitch, who had till then been in good spirits.
the works of Vogt, Moleschott, and Buchner,
Herzen alludes with such sprightly humour in one of his writings. When
The whole town was in a panic, for the cholera was coming nearer and nearer and had reached the neighbouring province. I may observe that satisfactory sanitary measures had been, so far as possible,
Blum,
“A NOBLE PERSONALITY
“H'm. I see that he is responsible for the manifestoes with the axe,”
Giving them the axe...catcher
of the manifestoes I know nothing — that is, absolutely nothing.
Quote Spencer...absolutely nothing, absolutely nothing!
I had a good look at them in Switzerland
“From which they direct the movement here?”
there are thousands of bloodhounds on their track, but have they tracked out many of them I Seven!
H'm . . . Stavrogin — it's quite the opposite, quite. . . . Avis au lecteur.” “Do you mean it? And can it be so?” Lembke articulated mistrustfully. “Yulia Mihailovna told me that from what she heard from Petersburg he is a man acting on some sort of instructions, so to speak.
“I know nothing about it; I know nothing, absolutely nothing.
Blum was one of that strange class of “unfortunate” Germans
Andrey Antonovitch
He is Von Lem..
Von Lembke
He keeps all the forbidden books, Ryliev's. 'Reflections,' all. Herzen's works.
