“I have told myself that I am writing this because it will give you time to consider before you reply, but that may only be cowardice. To read a rejection will be more bearable than to see it in your eyes. I have no reason to hope. You know that I love you, but my love gives me no claim. Other men have said these words to you and they will againAnd I can’t promise to make you happy; it would be arrogant to assume that such a gift lay in my power. If I were your father, your brother or merely a friend I could find plenty of reasons to argue against myself. But you know them already. Only the greatest poets could speak for me, but this is not a time for other men’s words. I can only write what is in my heart. My only hope is that you may care enough to make you wish to risk this adventure to... (查看原文)
She said, ‘I suppose a museum is a celebration of death. Dead people’s lives, the objects they made, the things they thought important, their clothes, their houses, their daily comforts, their art.’
‘No. A museum is about life. It’s about the individual life,how it was lived. It’s about the corporate life of the times, men and women organizing their societies. It’s about the continuing life of the species Homo sapiens. No one with any human curiosity can dislike a museum.' (查看原文)
'God, this is a terrible country to be really poor in. That’s if you’re honest. The scroungers and cheats do well enough, but try to be independent and see what help you get.' (查看原文)
Dalgliesh said, ‘You did nothing wrong and we are grateful to you for helping us. Perhaps we’ll see each other again when you come back to look at the picture. A lot of people enjoy it. I know I did. If it hadn’t been for your grandfather it wouldn’t be in the Dupayne Museum and perhaps we wouldn’t have a chance of seeing it.’ (查看原文)
A museum is about life. It’s about the individual life, how it was lived. It’s about the corporate life of the times, men and women organizing their societies. It’s about the continuing life of the species Homo sapiens. No one with any human curiosity can dislike a museum. (查看原文)
there was something frenetic, self-consciously youthful and deeply anxiety-making about those summer weeks. There was the trauma of tripos and feverish last-minute revision, the ruthless seeking after pleasures soon to be relinquished and the melancholy knowledge of imminent partings. (查看原文)
Dalgliesh reflected that a hospital was an extraordinary world in which human beings encountered each other briefly, bearing an individual weight of hope, anguish or despair, and yet was a world curiously familiar and accommodating, paradoxically both frightening and reassuring. (查看原文)
Outside the office the life of the hospital went on, the births and the deaths, the pain and the hope, ordinary people doing extraordinary jobs; none of it reached them. (查看原文)
