What do you want me to do, Peter?"
"Chuck the ball back to me if it runs out of the circle. Not obviously. Just exercise your devastating talent for keeping to the point and speaking the truth."
"That sounds easy."
"It is--for you. That's what I love you for."
--Gaudy Night
The vital power of an imaginative work demands a diversity within its unity; and the stronger the diversity the more massive the unity.
Dorothy L. SayersTag: imagination fiction-writing
Placetne, magistra?"
"Placet.
The art of change-ringing is peculiar to the English, and, like most English peculiarities, unintelligible to the rest of the world. (The change-ringer's) passion - and it is a passion - finds its satisfaction in mathematical completeness and mechanical perfection, and as his bell weaves her way rhythmically up from lead to hinder place and down again, he is filled with the solemn intoxication that comes of intricate ritual faultlessly performed.
Dorothy L. SayersTag: campanology
... can I have the heart to fluster the flustered Thipps further—that's very difficult to say quickly—by appearing in a top-hat and frock-coat? I think not. Ten to one he will overlook my trousers and mistake me for the undertaker. A grey suit, I fancy, neat but not gaudy, with a hat to tone, suits my other self better. Exit the amateur of first editions; new motive introduced by solo bassoon; enter Sherlock Holmes, disguised as a walking gentleman.
Dorothy L. SayersHas it ever struck you as odd, or unfortunate, that today, when the proportion of literacy is higher than it has ever been, people should have become susceptible to the influence of advertisement and mass propaganda to an extent hitherto unheard of and unimagined?
Dorothy L. SayersTag: reading education learning literacy classical-education information-literacy information-management
And what do all the great words come to in the end, but that? I love you- I am at rest with you- I have come home.
Dorothy L. SayersThe brutal fact is that in this Christian country not one person in a hundred has the faintest notion what the Church teaches about God or man or society or the person of Jesus Christ.
Dorothy L. SayersI took the liberty of ascertaining as much beforehand, my lord."
"Of course you did, Bunter. You always ascertain everything.
I assure your lordship that for the first time in my existence I regret that I have made no practical study of campanology."
I am always so delighted to find that there are things you cannot do.
Tag: wimsey-bunter
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