It was demeaning to scrape affection from virtually everyone you encountered. That was immature.
John KnowlesIs he using terror to keep away boredom? Does he have to try to destroy something? Even as a last resort, himself?
John KnowlesI began to know that each morning reasserted the problems of night before, that sleep suspended all but changed nothing, that you couldn’t make yourself over between dawn and dusk.
John KnowlesThe first person who says anything unpleasant will get a swift kick in the ass.
John KnowlesSo the more things remained the same, the more they changed after all. Nothing endures. Not love, not a tree, not even a death by violence.
John KnowlesSarcasm... the protest of those who are weak.
John KnowlesAs I had to do whenever I glimpsed this river, I thought of Phineas. Not of the tree and pain, but of one of his favorite tricks, Phineas in exaltation, balancing on one foot on the prow of a canoe like a river god, his raised arms invoking the air to support him, face transfigured, body a complex set of balances and compensations, each muscle aligned in perfection with all the others to maintain this supreme fantasy of achievement, his skin glowing from immersions, his whole body hanging between river and sky as though he had transcended gravity and might by gently pushing upward with his foot glide a little way higher and remain suspended in space, encompassing all the glory of the summer and offering it to the sky.
John KnowlesStichwörter: a-separate-peace gene john-knowles phineas tree
I turned with an inward groan to look at him. Quackenbush wasn't going to let me just do the work for him like the automaton I wished to be. We were going to have to be pitted against each other. It was easy enough now to see why. For Quackenbush had been systematically disliked since he first set foot in Devon, with careless, disinterested insults coming at him from the beginning, voting for and applauding the class leaders through years of attaining nothing he wanted for himself. I didn't want to add to his humiliations; I even sympathized with his trembling, goaded egotism he could no longer contain, the furious arrogance which sprang out now at the mere hint of opposition from someone he had at last found whom he could consider inferior to himself. I realized that all this explained him, and it wasn't the words he said which angered me. It was only that he was so ignorant, that he knew nothing of the gypsy summer, nothing of the loss I was fighting to endure, of skylarks and splashes and petal-bearing breezes, he had not seen Leper's snails or the Charter of the Super Suicide Society; he shared nothing, knew nothing, felt nothing as Phineas had done.
John KnowlesStichwörter: gene phineas quackenbush separate-peace
I saw on the pad not an operator's number from my home town, but one which seemed to interrupt the beating of my heart.
John KnowlesStichwörter: a-separate-peace gene john-knowles phineas tree
Stranded in this mill town railroad yard while the whole world was converging elsewhere, we seemed to be nothing but children playing among heroic men.
John KnowlesStichwörter: a-separate-peace gene john-knowles phineas tree
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