Emancipation resulting in madness. Unlimited freedom to choose and play a tremendous variety of roles with a lot of coarse energy.
Saul BellowTag: madness emancipation unlimited-freedom
Cunado uno se vuelve contra sí mismo, tampoco los demás significan ya nada para él
Saul BellowThe good die young, but I have been spared to build myself up so that I may end my life as good as gold. The senior dead will be proud of me.... I will join the Y.M.C.A. of the immortals. Only, in this very hour, I may be missing eternity.
Saul BellowTag: good-die-young senior-dead y-m-c-a-of-the-immortals
There’s the big advantage of backwardness. By the time the latest ideas reach Chicago, they’re worn thin and easy to see through. You don’t have to bother with them and it saves lots of trouble.
Saul Bellow��"Che m'importa di quello che è successo con Oliver? Non sono affari miei" dissi. "Io voglio sposarmi."
Clem aveva insistito per un fidanzamento di sei mesi, conoscendo la mia natura e la mia personalità. Ma questo consiglio andava bene per i bottegai della vita, non per chi aveva passato tutta la propria esistenza con un solo grande obiettivo.
"Certo" disse lei, "anch'io voglio sposarmi, se tu mi ami."
Glielo giurai con tutto il cuore.
"Se dopo pranzo mi ami ancora" disse lei, "chiedimelo di nuovo.
La gente non fa le cose per cui ha un vero talento, ma quelle a cui la spinge la preoccupazione. Se sono bravi a riparare le automobili, devono cantare il "Don Giovanni"; se sanno cantare, devono fare l'architetto; e se hanno il bernoccolo dell'architettura, vogliono diventare ispettori scolastici o pittori astrattisti o qualunque altra cosa. QUALUNQUE COSA!
Saul BellowWe were friends, somehow. But in the end, somehow, he intended to be a mortal enemy. All the while that he was making the gestures of a close and precious friend he was fattening my soul in a coop till it was ready for killing
Saul BellowI must be a little crazy.” She said it in a husky and quiet tone. “I must be, I have to admit. But I thought if I could get through to one other person I could get through to more. So people wouldn’t tire me, and so I wouldn’t be afraid of them. Because my feeling can’t be people’s fault, so much. They don’t make it. Well, I believed it must be you who could do this for me. And you could. I was so happy to find you. I thought you knew all about what you could do and you were so lucky and so special. That’s why it’s not just jealousy. I didn’t want you to come back. I’m sorry you’re here now. You’re not special. You’re like everybody else. You get tired easily. I don’t want to see you any more.
Saul BellowThe sand swallows burst out of their scupper holes in the bluffs and out over the transparent drown of the water, back again to the white, to the brown, to the black, from moving to stock-still sand waves and water-worked woods and roots that hugged and twisted in the sun.
Saul BellowYes, these business people have great energy. There’s a question as to what’s burned to produce it and what things we can and can’t burn.
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