".... when you met Lola Montez, her reputation made you automatically think of bedrooms. You didn't think of bedrooms when you met Florence Nightingale. Only sickrooms.Which are rather different, "
Elinor concluded. "
"We're brought up topsy turvy,"Philip went on. "Art before life; Romeo and Juliet and filthy stories before marriage or its equivalents. Hence all young modern literature is disillusioned. Inevitably. "
" All I know is that, when I discovered the reality, I found it disappointing-but attractive all the same.
Perhaps so attractive just because it was so disappointing. "
4
" The book had been written in the age when long black stockings and long black gloves had been the height of pornographic fashion, when "kissing a man without a moustache was like eating an egg without salt."
" Why not ? asked Spandrell. " You mayn't be able to understand or measure the supernatural forces behind the superficially natural ones (whatever the difference between natural and supernatural may be.)
But that doesn't prove they're not there. You're simply raising your stupidity to the rank of a general law."
Photos:
1-Brookly Museum Subway Station
2-Natural History by Patrick Dougherty-Botanic Gardens, Brooklyn
3-Bonsai
4-re Order by SiTU studio
5- Visnu Sculpture-Brooklyn Museum
Text: Aldous Huxley/ Point Counter Point
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