This play takes readers back and forth between the 19th and 20th centuries. Set in a large country house in Derbyshire, a cast of characters from each century play out their respective dramas. The text explores topics such as the nature of truth and time and the difference between the classical and the romantic temperament, and the disruptive influence of sex on our orbits in l...
This play takes readers back and forth between the 19th and 20th centuries. Set in a large country house in Derbyshire, a cast of characters from each century play out their respective dramas. The text explores topics such as the nature of truth and time and the difference between the classical and the romantic temperament, and the disruptive influence of sex on our orbits in life.
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Hannah: Sex and literature. Literature and sex. Your conversation, left to itself, doesn't have many places to go. Like two marbles rolling around a pudding basin. One of them is always sex.
Bernard: Ah well, yes. Men all over.
Hannah: No doubt. Einstein - relativity and sex. Chippendale - sex and furniture. Galileo - "Did the earth move?" What the hell is it with you people? Chaps sometimes wanted to marry me, and I don't know a worse bargain. Available sex against not being allowed to fart in bed. What do you mean the right book? (查看原文)
Thomasina: “If you could stop every atom in its position and direction, and if your mind could comprehend all the actions thus suspended, then if you were really, really good at algebra you could writ...Thomasina: “If you could stop every atom in its position and direction, and if your mind could comprehend all the actions thus suspended, then if you were really, really good at algebra you could write the formula for all the future;…” But isn’t this against the uncertainty rule? (展开)
昨天晚上兴奋地一口气看完之后，正好和James老师讨论到其他的东西，说到英国人一个非常典型的审美倾向是They admire the wit of not speaking out the whole truth.而且这句话中，wit的成分要远大于the whole truth，我想这是一样热衷拐弯抹角，日本人和英国人最大的差异，英国...
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0 有用 ‘ 2017-11-02 06:00:28
甜心呀 下一本书 下下本 我都给你挑好了
1 有用 无莓 2025-05-26 01:28:03 上海
好久没读的熟悉英国风味🥹写作技法有趣！读者虽说拥有上帝视角，但也在被历史呈现的方式左右。一路上读者得知有关角色的信息也在隔着时间影响我们的情感，于是意识到thomasina画下的hermit仿佛chaos中的order，冥冥中定下septimus的命运，而最后的华尔兹也格外令人心碎。。
0 有用 mipropiocentro 2024-02-29 11:36:12 加拿大
Thomasina: “If you could stop every atom in its position and direction, and if your mind could comprehend all the actions thus suspended, then if you were really, really good at algebra you could writ... Thomasina: “If you could stop every atom in its position and direction, and if your mind could comprehend all the actions thus suspended, then if you were really, really good at algebra you could write the formula for all the future;…” But isn’t this against the uncertainty rule? (展开)
0 有用 avenrood 2022-10-24 11:07:23 加拿大
最近从土星之环，福楼拜的鹦鹉到Arcadia，浪漫主义和自然主义的笔触总是带着天真的期望和淡淡的伤感. Temporal modern day quarrels and the eternity quest of the unknown.
0 有用 晴帆 2022-05-24 14:29:06
目前读过的最难理解的原版 有点吃力