Things that make me laugh
From today's reading:
"And besides sex, there are other emotions, also strengthening towards maturity: the various upliftings of the spirit, such as affection, friendship, patriotism, mysticism - and as soon as we try to determine the relation between sex and these other emotions we shall of course begin to quarrel as violently as we ever could about Walter Scott, perhaps even more violently."
Forster, E.M. Aspects of the Novel. 1927. Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1963: 57.
"But to continue the story of my professional experiences. I made one pound ten and six by my first review; and I bought a Persian cat with the proceeds. Then I grew ambitious. A Persian cat is all very well, I said; but a Persian cat is not enough. I must have a motor car. And it was thus that I became a novelist - for it is a very strange thing that people will give you a motor car if you will tell them a story."
Woolf, Virginia. "Professions for Women." Selected Essays. Ed. David Bradshaw. Oxford: Oxford World's Classics, 2008: 142.
"And besides sex, there are other emotions, also strengthening towards maturity: the various upliftings of the spirit, such as affection, friendship, patriotism, mysticism - and as soon as we try to determine the relation between sex and these other emotions we shall of course begin to quarrel as violently as we ever could about Walter Scott, perhaps even more violently."
Forster, E.M. Aspects of the Novel. 1927. Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1963: 57.
"But to continue the story of my professional experiences. I made one pound ten and six by my first review; and I bought a Persian cat with the proceeds. Then I grew ambitious. A Persian cat is all very well, I said; but a Persian cat is not enough. I must have a motor car. And it was thus that I became a novelist - for it is a very strange thing that people will give you a motor car if you will tell them a story."
Woolf, Virginia. "Professions for Women." Selected Essays. Ed. David Bradshaw. Oxford: Oxford World's Classics, 2008: 142.