Sublime

Outre leur penchant pour l’alcool, et peut-être même à cause de cela, les Groves étaient des gens extrêmement décontractés, sans aucun a priori éducatif, comprenant parfaitement qu’un jeune Français en vacances puisse découcher d’East Grinstead aussi souvent et aussi longtemps qu’il le désirait, pourvu qu’il fasse attention à regarder du bon côté e

Andy’s friend Jon and his girlfriend went travelling for a month and we agreed to look after their cat, called Doris. I changed Doris’s litter, I fed her, I gave her her medicine, I played with her when she yowled. Andy did nothing but stroke her when she sat next to him on the sofa.

On the 27th I went again to trial and, as had been predicted, the case against us was dismissed. The story of the drap de lit, finally told, caused great merriment in the courtroom, whereupon my friend decided that the French were “great.” I was chilled by their merriment, even though it was meant to warm me. It could only remind me of the laughter

Laura also thought that the law had done a great deal to spoil Henry. It had changed his natural sturdy stupidity into a browbeating indifference to other people’s point of view. He seemed to consider himself briefed by his Creator to turn into ridicule the opinions of those who disagreed with him, and to attribute dishonesty, idiocy, or a base mot

We say that homosexuality is a perfectly natural state, a fact, a way of life, and that we enjoy our sexuality, without feelings of inferiority or guilt. We seek and find love, and approach love, as a feeling of loving mutuality.

“Another thing I counted on was continuing my Thursday nights with Joyce, but when I showed up at our usual watering hole, he let me know that my present predicament put me off-limits for the time being because I was so inundated by my dilemma that my lachrymose disposition watered down his Bushmills. “It’s true that drinking ratcheted up my anguis

Look Homeward, Angel and A Farewell to Arms came out in September, 1929. The reaction to each work, by critics and readers, was overwhelmingly favorable.