Ford Madox Ford. Some Do Not. (1924)

Her assured, tranquil manner she would retain to any age: it betokened the enigmatic soul of her sex, but, physically, she couldn't be more than thirty. That was unimportant, for she would never want to do anything in which physical youth counted. She would never, for instance, have occasion to run: she would ( Read more... )

на почве диплома завела себе новое развлечение - открыть наугад поэмы Оссиана и прочесть кусочек вслух.
смысл, в принципе, не так важен, я получаю эммм... оральное и эстетическое удовольствие, как от хорошего вина или шоколада.

С песнями мы проводили его в чертоги Сельмы. Фингал повелел приготовить пиршество чаш. Тысячи бардов славили имя Оскара ( Read more... )

Some members of the Club, all of course in their full costume, were invited to breakfast with him [Scott]. He had previously retired for a little to his library, and when he entered the parlour, Mr. Crabbe, dressed in the highest style of professional neatness and decorum, with buckles in his shoes, and whatever was then considered as befitting an ( Read more... )

... on receiving the poet on the quarterdeck, his Majesty called for a bottle of Highland whisky, and having drunk his health in this national liquor, desired a glass to be filled for him. Sir Walter, after draining his own bumper, made a request that the King would condescend to bestow on him the glass out of which his Majesty had just drunk his ( Read more... )

Националистские движения - это детские крестовые походы, сами их названия - вызовы возрасту: Молодая Италия, Молодой Египет, Молодые Турки*, Партия Арабской Молодежи.

Эли Кедури. Национализм.
*Младотурки все же. фи переводчику и редактору.

In an oft-quoted remark, the former Canadian Prime Minister, Pierre Trudeau, during a speech in Washington, DC in 1969, observed to his American audience that 'living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant: no matter how friendly and even-tempered the beast, one is affected by every twitch and grunt'. Trudeau's memorable ( Read more... )

Two routes into nineteenth-century historical thought immediately present themselves. The high road, perhaps also the high-minded road, runs relatively straight and direct, tracing the technical evolution of history as a discipline. However, such a journey also moves dangerously close to the pitfalls of teleology: it tends to objectify a single ( Read more... )

It may also be that the political effectiveness of national sentiment would be much impaired if nationalists had as fine a sensibility to the wrong committed by their nation as they have to those committed against it.

Ernest Gellner. Nations and Nationalism

Платонова читать почти физически больно. пишет просто, страшно и безысходно. оголенный нерв, уставший, потерявший чувствительность от непрерывной пытки, отупение и безразличие, как единственный способ выжить, не сойти с ума. болезненно обнаженный, с неприкрытым срамом мир, словно нищий на паперти, с бесстыдной гордостью демонстрирующий свои струпья ( Read more... )

"По-видимому, в мире нравственном есть правило: чем выше, тем опасней. "Обычный человек", потихоньку изменяющий жене, иногда плутующий, не нарушая законов, несомненно "ниже", чем тот, кто служит идее, подчиняя ей желания, выгоду и даже самую жизнь. Но именно из этих, "высших", выходят страшные, бесовские люди - инквизиторы, члены Комитета ( Read more... )