And I realized with chagrin that my agreeing to be boss had freed Frank to do what he wanted to do more than anything else to do what his father had done: to receive honours and creature comforts while escaping human responsibilities. He was accomplishing this by going down a spiritual oubliette (查看原文)
”What can a thoughtful man hope for mankind on earth, given the experience of the past million years?”
It doesn’t take long to read the fourteenth book. It consists of one word and a period.
This is it:
“Nothing.” (查看原文)
”Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before,” Bokonon tells us. “He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.” (查看原文)
When I was young,
I was so gay and mean,
And I drank and chased the girls
Just like young St. Augustine.
Saint Augustine,
He got to be a saint.
So, if I get to be one, also,
Please, Mama, don’t you faint. (查看原文)
one stag beetle against a hundredred ants, one centipede against three spiders, red ants againstblack ants. They won't fight unless you keep shaking the jarAnd that's what Frank was doing, shaking, shaking the jar. (查看原文)
Newt remained curled in the chair. He held out his painty hands as though a cat's cradle were strung between them. ‘No wonder kids grow up crazy. A cat's cradle is nothing but a bunch of X's between somebodys hands, and little kids look and look and look at all those X's...
‘And?’
‘No damn cat, and no damn cradle.’ (查看原文)
