WORK AND REST: GENIUS AND STUPIDITY.

By ALEXANDER FRANCIS CHAMBERLAIN, PH.D.,
CLARK UNIVERSITY, WORCESTER, MASS.

OLDER far than the Tennysonian line, ‘Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay’ is the Chinese proverb, ‘One day is as good as three,’ i.e., if you know how and when to do the thing necessary. Scott has given the warrior’s ( Read more... )

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In his account of “the stark, enduring figure” of James Fenimore Cooper’s Deerslayer in his 1923 Studies in Classic American Literature, D.H. Lawrence observes:He is neither spiritual nor sensual. He is a moralizer, but he always tries to moralize from actual experience, not from theory. He says: ‘Hurt nothing unless you’re forced to.’ Yet he gets ( Read more... )

Otto: You pompous, stuck-up, snot-nosed, English, giant, twerp, scumbag, fuck-face, dickhead, asshole!
Archie: How very interesting. You’re a true vulgarian, aren’t you?
Otto: You are the vulgarian, you fuck! Now apologize!

-A Fish Called Wanda

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As a repressed barrister henpecked by his haughty spouse, Archie Leach is an unlikely ( Read more... )