Showing posts with label Mary McCarthy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mary McCarthy. Show all posts
Sunday, March 15, 2015
Thursday, March 12, 2015
Daily Dose
CAESAR'S COMMENTARIES
"The very grammar was beatified for me by the objective temperament that ordered it, so much so that today I cannot see an ablative absolute or a passage of indirect discourse without happy tears springing to my eyes."
From The Figures in the Clock
Saturday, July 23, 2011
Daily Dose
From On the Contrary: Articles of Belief, 1946 - 1961, by Mary McCarthy
HOW
"How a man can become a monster or a mechanical marvel is the question that preoccupies Dickens throughout the whole of his work. And these mechanical marvels he shows us are not travesties of men invented by a satirical author; they are appallingly true to life. Mr. Dorrit, Pecksniff, Uriah Heep -- these are the travesties man has made of himself."
From Recalled to Life, or, Charles Dickens at the Bar
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Daily Dose
From Mary McCarthy's Theatre Chronicles 1937 - 1962CUSTOM
"Custom, it must be admitted, has done something to stale As You Like It and A Midsummer Night's Dream and Macbeth and Hamlet for us, so that we can hardly see these plays for the dust of old productions they have gathered, like costumes in a theatrical warehouse."
From The Little Gate, February 1954
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