Sublime

But that is not a man, that’s a mushroom!”

Sexual love, as one of the most “dynamic” of pleasures, naturally comes under the ban. “Sexual intercourse,” the philosopher declares, “has never done a man good and he is lucky if it has not harmed him.” He was fond of children (other people’s), but for the gratification of this taste he seems to have relied upon other people not to follow his adv

“So the bartender points at the piano in the corner says, ‘Go ahead.’ Guy puts the octopus on the piano stool—Pianoctamus! Pianoctamum Bailey!—octopus flips up the lid, plays a few scales, then lays out a little étude on the piano.”

Man is many things, but he is not rational.

An obvious instance is that of ordinary and happy marriage. A man and a woman cannot live together without having against each other a kind of everlasting joke. Each has discovered that the other is a fool, but a great fool.

A verdict of death by misadventure was returned.

Of all people in the world the English have the least sense of the beauty of literature."