Men and women 113 "It was very painful, when you made it quite clear to a young man that you were determined not to marry him, however much he might wish it, that he would still continue to pay you marked attentions; if he meant them sincerely, instead of being so strange as Mr. Godfrey Cass was, sometimes behaving as if he didn’t want to speak to her, and taking no notice of her for weeks and weeks, and then, all on a sudden, almost making love again?" George Eliot, Silas Marner. Predictable male behavior when rejected by a woman.
Men and women 193 "It drives me past patience, said Priscilla, impetuously, that way o’ the men—always wanting and wanting and never easy with what they’ve got: they can’t sit comfortable in their chairs when they’ve neither ache nor pain, but either they must stick a pipe in their mouths, to make them better than well, or else they must be swallowing something strong…." George Eliot, Silas Marner. The female view of men.
Men and women 326 "He had vanity, which strongly inclined him…to think she did love him, though she might not know it herself…that he should be able in time to make those feelings what he wished." Austen, Mansfield Park. The male view of women. She doesn't know she loves me. I will make her love me.
Friday, February 27, 2009
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Quotes: Men and Women (1)
Men 587 "Boys, of vastly different sizes, but all affecting a brave unconcern." Richard Cobb. “The Homburg Hat.” 1985. Gross, ed. Essays. The male cult of nonchalance.
Men 587 "…fathers sharing with their sons, whether tall or quite tiny, a brave indifference and common stiff upper-lipdom" “The Homburg Hat.” 1985. Gross, ed. Essays. Men dare not cry.
Men and women 411 "Most of the men who came to the flat…had the easy gentleness, the acceptance of women without embarrassed banter, for which she had longed in Gopher Prairie." Sinclair Lewis, Main Street. Lack of male self-consciousness when mixing with women in a social setting.
Men and women 280 "...oh, damn these women and the way they get you all tied up in complications!" Lewis, Main Street. Male stereotype of women.
Men and women 203 Red: “Naw, she didn’t lie, but people change, you know.” Mailer, The Naked and the Dead. "Dear John!"
Men 587 "…fathers sharing with their sons, whether tall or quite tiny, a brave indifference and common stiff upper-lipdom" “The Homburg Hat.” 1985. Gross, ed. Essays. Men dare not cry.
Men and women 411 "Most of the men who came to the flat…had the easy gentleness, the acceptance of women without embarrassed banter, for which she had longed in Gopher Prairie." Sinclair Lewis, Main Street. Lack of male self-consciousness when mixing with women in a social setting.
Men and women 280 "...oh, damn these women and the way they get you all tied up in complications!" Lewis, Main Street. Male stereotype of women.
Men and women 203 Red: “Naw, she didn’t lie, but people change, you know.” Mailer, The Naked and the Dead. "Dear John!"
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Quotes: Memories (2)
Memories 346 Marianne’s regrets: "Whenever I looked towards the past, I saw some duty neglected or some failing indulged; everybody seemed injured by me…an heart hardened against their merits, and a temper irritated by their very attention." Jane Austen. Ubiquitous negative memories.
Memories 376 "The terrors that he had lived through seemed to choke him as he remembered the awful scenes." Rölvaag, Giants in the Earth. Negative memories.
Memories 300 "…there was the sound of a piano lesson just like the one that Fernanda heard during the siestas of her adolescence." Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude. Pleasant memories.
Memory 47 "We look back on our life as a thing of broken pieces, because our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained." Goethe. Early 19th century. Gross, ed. Oxford Book of Aphorisms. The reality of memories.
Memory 432 "…memory as the flagellant." Mailer, The Naked and the Dead. Negative memories.
Memory techniques 61 "Following recommendations made by Cicero to improve the rhetorician’s ability to recall, he [St. Thomas Aquinas] elaborated a series of memory rules for readers: placing the things one wished to remember in a certain order, developing an 'affection' for them, transforming them into 'unusual similitudes' that would render them easy to visualize, repeating them frequently. Manguel, A History of Reading. The idea of memory techniques goes way back in history.
Memories 376 "The terrors that he had lived through seemed to choke him as he remembered the awful scenes." Rölvaag, Giants in the Earth. Negative memories.
Memories 300 "…there was the sound of a piano lesson just like the one that Fernanda heard during the siestas of her adolescence." Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude. Pleasant memories.
Memory 47 "We look back on our life as a thing of broken pieces, because our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained." Goethe. Early 19th century. Gross, ed. Oxford Book of Aphorisms. The reality of memories.
Memory 432 "…memory as the flagellant." Mailer, The Naked and the Dead. Negative memories.
Memory techniques 61 "Following recommendations made by Cicero to improve the rhetorician’s ability to recall, he [St. Thomas Aquinas] elaborated a series of memory rules for readers: placing the things one wished to remember in a certain order, developing an 'affection' for them, transforming them into 'unusual similitudes' that would render them easy to visualize, repeating them frequently. Manguel, A History of Reading. The idea of memory techniques goes way back in history.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Quotes: Memories (1)
Memories 568 "Would that my hiding place were lonelier, so that the past might not find me!" Hawthorne: "Footprints on the Sea-Shore." Trying to escape from past memories. RayS.
Memories 708 "I can spare none of my recollections—not even those of error or sorrow…are all alike the food of my spirit." Hawthorne: "A virtuoso's Collection." All memories, good and bad, are a part of my spirit. RayS.
Memories 726 "The glow of festal torches—the blaze of perfumed lamps—the bonfires that had been kindled for him, when he was the darling of the people—the splendor of the royal court, where he had been the peculiar star…."Hawthorne: "The Antique Ring." Memories of past glories. RayS.
Memories 794 "The past, dismal as it seems, shall fling no gloom upon the future; to give it its due importance, we must think of it as an anecdote in our eternity." Hawthorne: "Egotism; Or, the Bosom-Serpent." Make bad memories anecdotes in our eternal life. RayS.
Memories 273 "The things we remember best are those better forgotten." Gracian. 1647. Gross, ed. Oxford Book of Aphorisms. We can't forget those bad memories. RayS.
Memories 708 "I can spare none of my recollections—not even those of error or sorrow…are all alike the food of my spirit." Hawthorne: "A virtuoso's Collection." All memories, good and bad, are a part of my spirit. RayS.
Memories 726 "The glow of festal torches—the blaze of perfumed lamps—the bonfires that had been kindled for him, when he was the darling of the people—the splendor of the royal court, where he had been the peculiar star…."Hawthorne: "The Antique Ring." Memories of past glories. RayS.
Memories 794 "The past, dismal as it seems, shall fling no gloom upon the future; to give it its due importance, we must think of it as an anecdote in our eternity." Hawthorne: "Egotism; Or, the Bosom-Serpent." Make bad memories anecdotes in our eternal life. RayS.
Memories 273 "The things we remember best are those better forgotten." Gracian. 1647. Gross, ed. Oxford Book of Aphorisms. We can't forget those bad memories. RayS.
Monday, February 23, 2009
Quotes: Medicine (5)
Medicine 254 " …it was in a way a very merciful death—though slow—for it was without pain, turning from a fitful fever into an unconquerable laziness strange to see in the busy natives of the lake shore; it passed, this death, from lethargy into a ridiculous sleepiness that made the mouths of the Negroes fall open while they ate; it went at last from such a drowsiness into a delicious coma—no waking from this!—and into a horrible unnatural coldness that merged with the chill of the grave…African sleeping sickness…a few years it had killed hundreds of thousands of the people of Uganda, it had sent brave missionaries to meet their God, and English colonial administrators home to their final slumber." DeKruif, Microbe Hunters. Vivid description of a slow death. RayS.
Medicine 7 "Yossarian was in the hospital with a pain in his liver that fell just short of being jaundice…doctors were puzzled by the fact that it wasn’t quite jaundice; if it became jaundice they could treat it." Heller, Catch-22. That's all right. If doctors don't treat what's wrong with you, they will find something they can treat. For example, high blood pressure. RayS.
Medicine 33 "Their names were Gus and Wes and they had succeeded in elevating medicine to an exact science: all men reporting on sick call with temperatures above 102 were rushed to the hospital; all those…reporting on sick call with temperatures below 102 had their gums and toes painted with gentian violet solution and were given a laxative…all those reporting on sick call with temperatures of exactly 102 were asked to return in an hour to have their temperatures taken again." Heller, Catch-22. That's what's known as a complete and foolproof system. Probably as useful as any other methods doctors use. RayS.
Medicine 178 "One of the things he wanted to start screaming about was the surgeon’s knife that was almost certain to be waiting for him and everyone else who lived long enough to die." Heller, Catch-22. If you live long enough you will face surgery sometime in your life. RayS.
Medicine 179 "It’s not my business to save lives, Doc Daneeka retorted sullenly…all they ever told me was to uphold the ethics of my profession and never give testimony against another physician." Heller, Catch-22. A doctor's training. Doctors don't cure. They make patients sick. RayS.
Medicine 343 "There are so many ways for me to get killed, Yossarian commented, and you had to find one more." Heller, Catch-22. Doctors can put a label on any kind of death. But the usual scapegoat is "hole in the heart." RayS.
Medicine 7 "Yossarian was in the hospital with a pain in his liver that fell just short of being jaundice…doctors were puzzled by the fact that it wasn’t quite jaundice; if it became jaundice they could treat it." Heller, Catch-22. That's all right. If doctors don't treat what's wrong with you, they will find something they can treat. For example, high blood pressure. RayS.
Medicine 33 "Their names were Gus and Wes and they had succeeded in elevating medicine to an exact science: all men reporting on sick call with temperatures above 102 were rushed to the hospital; all those…reporting on sick call with temperatures below 102 had their gums and toes painted with gentian violet solution and were given a laxative…all those reporting on sick call with temperatures of exactly 102 were asked to return in an hour to have their temperatures taken again." Heller, Catch-22. That's what's known as a complete and foolproof system. Probably as useful as any other methods doctors use. RayS.
Medicine 178 "One of the things he wanted to start screaming about was the surgeon’s knife that was almost certain to be waiting for him and everyone else who lived long enough to die." Heller, Catch-22. If you live long enough you will face surgery sometime in your life. RayS.
Medicine 179 "It’s not my business to save lives, Doc Daneeka retorted sullenly…all they ever told me was to uphold the ethics of my profession and never give testimony against another physician." Heller, Catch-22. A doctor's training. Doctors don't cure. They make patients sick. RayS.
Medicine 343 "There are so many ways for me to get killed, Yossarian commented, and you had to find one more." Heller, Catch-22. Doctors can put a label on any kind of death. But the usual scapegoat is "hole in the heart." RayS.
Friday, February 20, 2009
Quotes: Medicine (4)
Medicine 103 Robert Koch: "I hate this bluff that my medical practice is...it isn’t because I do not want to save babies from diphtheria...but mothers come to me crying--asking me to save their babies--and what can I do?--grope... fumble... reassure them when I know there is no hope...how can I cure diphtheria when I do not even know what causes it, when the wisest doctor in Germany doesn’t know." DeKruif, Microbe Hunters. On what doctors don't know. RayS.
Medicine 103 "...but meanwhile the Moujiks of desolate towns in Russia were still warding off scourges by hitching four widows to a plow and with them drawing a furrow round their villages in the dead of night--and their doctors had no sounder protection to offer them." DeKruif, Microbe Hunters. Will today's medical practices be any sounder? RayS.
Medicine 118 "So it was that he [Koch] began to change the whole business of doctors from a foolish hocus-pocus with pills and leeches into an intelligent fight where science instead of superstition was the weapon." DeKruif, Microbe Hunters. We still have the pills. Boy, do we! RayS.
Medicine 135 "In Alexandria the streets were still with fear; the murderous virus...sneaked into healthy men in the morning, doubled them into knots of spasm-racked agony by afternoon, and put them to rest beyond the reach of all pain by night." DeKruif, Microbe Hunters. The terror of the plague. RayS.
Medicine 227 "He [Theobald Smith] was a doctor of medicine from the Albany Medical College...detested the idea of going through life solemnly diagnosing sickness he could not hope to cure, offering sympathy where help was needed, trying to heal patients for whom there was no hope--in brief, medicine seemed to him to be a mixed-up, illogical business." DeKruif, Microbe Hunters. Still is. RayS.
Medicine 103 "...but meanwhile the Moujiks of desolate towns in Russia were still warding off scourges by hitching four widows to a plow and with them drawing a furrow round their villages in the dead of night--and their doctors had no sounder protection to offer them." DeKruif, Microbe Hunters. Will today's medical practices be any sounder? RayS.
Medicine 118 "So it was that he [Koch] began to change the whole business of doctors from a foolish hocus-pocus with pills and leeches into an intelligent fight where science instead of superstition was the weapon." DeKruif, Microbe Hunters. We still have the pills. Boy, do we! RayS.
Medicine 135 "In Alexandria the streets were still with fear; the murderous virus...sneaked into healthy men in the morning, doubled them into knots of spasm-racked agony by afternoon, and put them to rest beyond the reach of all pain by night." DeKruif, Microbe Hunters. The terror of the plague. RayS.
Medicine 227 "He [Theobald Smith] was a doctor of medicine from the Albany Medical College...detested the idea of going through life solemnly diagnosing sickness he could not hope to cure, offering sympathy where help was needed, trying to heal patients for whom there was no hope--in brief, medicine seemed to him to be a mixed-up, illogical business." DeKruif, Microbe Hunters. Still is. RayS.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Quotes: Medicine (3)
Medicine 478 "Too few physicians practice the intuitive diagnosis that used to be expected from every medical man while medicine was still a calling rather than a business." Robert Graves. “The Case for Xanthippe [Plato’s shrewish wife].” 1960. Gross, ed. Essays. "When baseball was a game instead of a business," etc., etc., etc. RayS.
Medicine 19 "We land in a rut of obstetrics and typhoid and busted legs." Sinclair Lewis, Main Street. From the general practitioner's point of view. RayS.
Medicine 163 "…tries to argue his patients into having whatever he diagnoses them as having!" Sinclair Lewis, Main Street. The psychology of doctoring. RayS.
Medicine 308 "The ambulance whirled under the hooded carriage-entrance of the hospital, and instantly he was reduced to a zero in the nightmare succession of cork-floored halls, endless doors open on old women sitting up in bed, and elevator, the anesthetizing room...was permitted to kiss his wife...." Lewis, Babbitt. The hospital "experience." RayS.
Medicine 19 "We land in a rut of obstetrics and typhoid and busted legs." Sinclair Lewis, Main Street. From the general practitioner's point of view. RayS.
Medicine 163 "…tries to argue his patients into having whatever he diagnoses them as having!" Sinclair Lewis, Main Street. The psychology of doctoring. RayS.
Medicine 308 "The ambulance whirled under the hooded carriage-entrance of the hospital, and instantly he was reduced to a zero in the nightmare succession of cork-floored halls, endless doors open on old women sitting up in bed, and elevator, the anesthetizing room...was permitted to kiss his wife...." Lewis, Babbitt. The hospital "experience." RayS.
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