Grownups know things, said Piggy. They ain't afraid of the dark. They'd meet and have tea and discuss. Then things 'ud be alright---
They wouldn't set fire to the island. Or lose---
They'd build a ship---
The three boys stood in the darkness, striving unsuccessfully to convey the majesty of adult life.
They wouldn't quarrel---
Or break my specs---
Or talk about a beast---
If only they could get a message to us, cried Ralph desperately. If only they could send us something grownup. . . a sign or something.
Tags: lord-of-the-flies
He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again.
William GoldingTags: lord-of-the-flies
He became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things. He talked to them, urging them, ordering them. Driven back by the tide, his footprints became bays in which they were trapped and gave him the illusion of mastery.
William GoldingTags: lord-of-the-flies
The greatest pleasure is not - say - sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to understand their own humanity - well, that's the job of the writer.
William GoldingTags: humanity pleasure understanding
Girls say to me, very reasonably, 'why isn't it a bunch of girls? Why did you write this about a bunch of boys?' Well, my reply is I was once a little boy - I have been a brother, a father, I am going to be a grandfather. I have never been a sister, or a mother, or a grandmother. That's one answer. Another answer is of course to say that if you - as it were - scaled down human beings, scaled down society, if you land with a group of little boys, they are more ike a scaled-down version of society than a group of little girls would be. Don't ask me why, and this is a terrible thing to say because I'm going to be chased from hell to breakfast by all the women who talk about equality - this is nothing to do with equality at all. I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been. But one thing you can't do with them is take a bunch of them and boil them down, so to speak, into a set of little girls who would then become a kind of image of civilisation, of society. The other thing is - why aren't they little boys AND little girls? Well, if they'd been little boys and little girls, we being who we are, sex would have raised its lovely head, and I didn't want this to be about sex. Sex is too trivial a thing to get in with a story like this, which was about the problem of evil and the problem of how people are to live together in a society, not just as lovers or man and wife.
William GoldingTags: equality men women society children life-experience sex civilisation lord-of-the-flies microcosms
I spit upon your God!
William GoldingTags: god pincher-martin
The crucifixion should never be depicted. It is a horror to be veiled.
William GoldingTags: religion censorship crucifixion
Who would sharpen a point aginst the darkness of the world?
William GoldingTags: the-inheritors
Now we, if not in the spirit, have been caught up to see our earth, our mother, Gaia Mater, set like a jewel in space. We have no excuse now for supposing her riches inexhaustible nor the area we have to live on limitless because unbounded. We are the children of that great blue white jewel. Through our mother we are part of the solar system and part through that of the whole universe. In the blazing poetry of the fact we are children of the stars.
William GoldingTags: life nature environment earth conservation gaia nobel-lecture
No human endeavour can ever be wholly good... it must always have a cost.
William GoldingTags: humanity cost human-endeavour
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