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Not Yoda ...
"This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man he will never on his heap of mud keep still. He want to be so, and again he want to be so ... He wants to be a saint, and he wants to be a devil - and every time he shuts his eyes he sees himself as a very fine fellow - so fine as he can never be ..."
- Joseph Conrad's character Stein
... and the moral of that is ... it is really not a very quatable book. It is not "Zorba the Greek". It IS solid Conrad, though, and that's a good thing.
"This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man he will never on his heap of mud keep still. He want to be so, and again he want to be so ... He wants to be a saint, and he wants to be a devil - and every time he shuts his eyes he sees himself as a very fine fellow - so fine as he can never be ..."
- Joseph Conrad's character Stein
... and the moral of that is ... it is really not a very quatable book. It is not "Zorba the Greek". It IS solid Conrad, though, and that's a good thing.
posted by Thomas F. Schminke at 8:13 AM
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