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The Goat-Foot God Quotes
The Goat-Foot God
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“There is a life behind the personality that uses personalities as masks. There are times when life puts off the mask and deep answers unto deep.”
― The Goat-Foot God
― The Goat-Foot God
“It's quite simple and natural if you think it out. The old pagan Britons were in the habit of having fairs when they assembled at their holy centres for the big sun festivals. The fairs went on just the same, whether they were pagan or Christian, and the missionary centres grew up where the crowds came together. When the king was converted, they just changed the Sun for the Son. The common people never knew the difference. They went for the fun of the fair and took part in the ceremonies to bring good luck and make the fields fertile. How were they to know the difference between Good Friday and the spring ploughing festival? There was a human sacrifice on both occasions.”
― Goat Foot God: A Novel
― Goat Foot God: A Novel
“You want to wake the Old Gods, don't you?” “Yes.” “Well then, go where the Old Gods are accustomed to be worshipped.”
― Goat Foot God: A Novel
― Goat Foot God: A Novel
“In sympathetic magic one imitated a thing and so got into touch with it.”
― Goat Foot God: A Novel
― Goat Foot God: A Novel
“propose to get hold of a suitable house, one of those big, left-over country mansions with lots of huge rooms, that are white elephants to everybody, and fit up the different rooms as temples to the different gods of the old pantheons. Make a really artistic job of it, you know. Have some first-class frescoes done, and all the rest of it; and I'm inclined to think that if we make the temple ready, the god will indwell it, and we shall begin to learn something about him—or her.”
― Goat Foot God: A Novel
― Goat Foot God: A Novel
“After all, the human machine is an internal combustion engine running on spirit.”
― Goat Foot God: A Novel
― Goat Foot God: A Novel
“In his imagination he performed the ‘composition of place’ reconstructing the scene from what he could remember of the classics, so laboriously and unprofitably rammed into his head at Harrow.”
― Goat Foot God: A Novel
― Goat Foot God: A Novel
“More tears began to flow, but tears of rage this time. Mona was furious with herself, with Hugh, but above all, with Jelkes, whom she recognised as acting as a kind of conscience to the pair of them.”
― Goat Foot God: A Novel
― Goat Foot God: A Novel
“Jelkes came to the conclusion that Mona knew exactly what she was doing, and that it was not the slightest use to speak to her.”
― Goat Foot God: A Novel
― Goat Foot God: A Novel
“He looked round at Mona, who looked back at him with non-committal eyes. She had better control of herself than either of the two men, and was like the core of calm at the heart of a cyclone.”
― Goat Foot God: A Novel
― Goat Foot God: A Novel
“I can cope with Ambrosius,” came Mona's voice from the shadows.”
― Goat Foot God: A Novel
― Goat Foot God: A Novel
“Mona sat watching them, two weird figures in the uncertain light. as they wrestled with the reluctant charcoal in the censer. Then Jelkes rose upright and whirled the thing on its yard-long clashing chains round and round his head. clouds of smoke and showers of sparks flying in every direction; his enormous shadow stretched far across the vaulting of the roof. grotesque and demoniac, the cloak of his ulster flapping like the wings of a bat. Hugh, his face invisible in the shadow of his cowl, stood silently watching him. Mona clutched the arms of her chair, her heart beating in her throat and nearly suffocating her. Jelkes and Hugh, tall men in any case, looked enormous in the uncertain light. Hugh was in very deed the renegade monk returned from the tomb; Jelkes a being of another order of creation altogether.”
― Goat Foot God: A Novel
― Goat Foot God: A Novel
“But she was not of those who believe in the sanctity of handwork, however crude. There is no particular point in doing by hand what can be done as well and better by machine.”
― Goat Foot God: A Novel
― Goat Foot God: A Novel
“Well, you remember what Iamblichos said about the way they built up the god-forms in their imagination so as to get the invisible powers to manifest through them?”
― Goat Foot God: A Novel
― Goat Foot God: A Novel
“The old bookseller had learnt at the seminary that when it comes to conceiving transcendent things, minds vary enormously in their capacity, and the trained mind is a very different matter to the untrained; and the mind that is conditioned by music and incense and dim lights has very different capacities to the mind that goes at the job in cold blood.”
― Goat Foot God: A Novel
― Goat Foot God: A Novel
“Huysmans' ‘Lá-Bas,”
― Goat Foot God: A Novel
― Goat Foot God: A Novel
