Of Tinúviel
It is told in the Lay of Leithian that Beren came stumbling into Doriath grey and bowed as with many years of woe, so great had been the torment of the road. But wandering in the summer in the woods of Neldoreth he came upon Lúthien, daughter of Thingol and Melian, at a time of evening under moonrise, as she danced upon the unfading grass in the glades beside Esgalduin. Then all memory of his pain departed from him, and he fell into an enchantment; for Lúthien was the most beautiful of all the Children of Ilúvatar. Blue was her raiment as the unclouded heaven, but her eyes were grey as the starlit evening; her mantle was sewn with golden flowers, but her hair was dark as the shadows of twilight. As the light upon the leaves of trees, as the voice of clear waters, as the stars above the mists of the world, such was her glory and her loveliness; and in her face was a shining light.
Sayfa 192 - Harper Collins Publishers
Yetişme tarzı ne kadar belirleyici olabiliyor. Sanırım orta sınıfların, yılda beş yüz pound kazanan sınıfların çocukları Mudie’s’i ve Times Kitap Kulübü’nü daha beşikteyken öğreniyorlar. Bense bazı kütüphanelerin kitap ödünç verdiğini ancak bir süre sonra fark ettim ve hem Mudie’s’e hem de Bristol’deki başka bir kütüphaneye üye oldum. Onu izleyen bir yıl kadar süreyle ne okudum ama! Wells, Conrad, Kipling, Galsworthy, Barry Pain, W. W. Jacobs, Pett Ridge, Oliver Onions, Compton Mackenzie, H. Seton Merriman, Maurice Baring, Stephen McKenna, May Sinclair, Arnold Bennett, Anthony Hope, Elinor Glyn, O. Henry, Stephen Leacock, hatta Silas Hocking’le Jean Stratton-Porter. Saydığım isimlerin hangisini daha önce duydunuz acaba, merak ediyorum? O günlerde insanların ciddiye aldıkları kitapların yarısı bugün unutuldu.
Musonius and Ethics
"He argued that since we acquire all good things by pain, the person who refuses to endure pain all but condemns himself to not being worthy of anything good"
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Kadınlara Felsefe Eğitimi Verilmesi Üzerine Erkekleri İkna Argümanı
It stands her in good stead to have learned to think nobly and to consider death not an evil and life not a good, and at the same time it stands her in good stead not to turn pain aside and not to pursue lack of pain above all. Therefore it is likely that this woman would be both self-motivated and persevering, the kind of woman to nurse at her own breast the children whom she brings forth, to serve her hus-band with her own hands, and to do without hesitation tasks which some consider appropriate for slaves.
Sayfa 29
İngilizce'deki "pain" kelimesiyle, Fransızca'daki "pain" kelimesini düşündü. Biri "acı" diğeri "ekmek" demekti. Barbaros bunu sıradan bir tesadüf olarak değerlendiremeyecek kadar sarhoş ve yalnızdı.
Acı, insanın hayat tarlasında biçtiği buğdaylardan pişirdiği ekmekti.
Dolayısıyla sabah kahvaltısı kadar kaçınılmazdı.
Sayfa 90Kitabı okudu
