In answer, the news of the Gospel is that extraordinary things happen. ... Lear goes berserk on a heath but comes out of it for a few brief hours every inch a king. Zaccheus climbs up a sycamore tree a crook and climbs down a saint. Paul sets out a hatchet man for the Pharisees and comes back a fool for Christ.

Frederick Buechner

Mots clés fairy-tales king-lear gospel paul zaccheus

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Our basest beggars are in the poorest thing superfluous: Allow not nature more than nature needs, man's life is cheap as beast's.

William Shakespeare

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Virgina Woolf versus Edward Lear."

"Christ Alive," said Billy. "Are those my only choices?"

"I went for Lear," said Leon. "Partly out of fidelity to the letter L. Partly because given the choice between nonsense and boojy wittering you blatantly have to choose nonsense.

China Miéville

Mots clés literary-criticism virginia-woolf king-lear nonsense

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Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy laws my services are bound...

{His second motto, from King Lear by Shakespeare}

Carl Friedrich Gauß

Mots clés shakespeare nature service william-shakespeare king-lear motto goddess scientist gauss natural-laws

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