[b]Evelyn Waugh
Literature is the right use of language irrespective of the subject or reason of utterance.[/b]
Is this more or less ridicuous than I think it is?
Faster… Faster… it’ll stop all right when the time comes.
In reality of course this is hardly ever true.
Julia used to say, ‘Poor Sebastian. It’s something chemical in him.’ That was the cant phrase of the time, derived from heaven knows what misconception of popular science. ‘There’s something chemical between them’ was used to explain the overmastering hate or love of any two people. It was the old concept of determinism in a new form. I do not believe there was anything chemical in my friend.
Unless of course this is all chemical too.
Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in Old Maid; the player who is finally with it has lost.
Really, imagine arguing that today!
When the waterholes were dry, people sought to drink at the mirage.
Let’s file this one under, “to no avail”.
Instruction would be wasted on me. Just give me the form and I’ll sign on the dotted line.
And just like that, his soul was bought.