Commonplace book

[moonshee]

Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.

George Eliot, "Scenes of Clerical Life"

Comments

[tacente]

Современный вариант - gay, psychotic or married.

[moonshee]

По-моему, сомнительная параллель, разве что за исключением последней категории.

[partr]

wishful thinking, вложенное в уста Элиота, остается wishful thinking

в уста Элиота

[moonshee]

Элиот - дама

Re: в уста Элиота

[partr]

makes no difference. ведь Эванс - господин.

[moonshee]

И Эванс, и Элиот - обе дамы.:)

[scriptum]

Wholeheartedly agree.

[moonshee]

You are a mathematician, aren't you?

[scriptum]

renegade mathematician, to be exact

[moonshee]

Ну тем более инсайдерское мнение.

[shka]

then all who are left for making your own slaves of them are the first three categories? niiiice...

[moonshee]

The first three? But there are only three all in all...

I guess she's hardly concerned with anyone lacking raw material to make a slave of, rather with the overall natures of men and women. Sad, yeah.

[shka]

a monster, a mathematician, a mad philosopher - or a slave.