Book Excerpts
Selected passages from books connected with this theme.
Antigone
Sophocles
Love, unconquerable
Waster of rich men, keeper
Of warm lights and all-night vigil
In the soft face of a girl:
Sea-wanderer, forest-visitor!
Even the pure Immortals
cannot escape you,
And mortal man,
in h …
Blindness
Saramago
“Words are like that, they deceive, they pile up, it seems they do not know where to go, and, suddenly, because of two or three or four that suddenly come out, simple in themselves, a personal pronoun, an adverb, an adje …
A World Upside Down
Galeano · 1998
(selected excerpts)
A bridge with no river.
Tall building façades with nothing behind them.
The gardener waters the plastic grass.
Escalators that lead nowhere.
The highway that gives us the chance
to discover pl …
July’s People
Gordimer Nadine
The first Chapter.
You like to have some cup of tea?
— July bent at the doorway and began that day for them as his kind has always done for their kind. The knock on the door. Seven o’clock. In governors’residences,co …
Antigone
Sophocles
ANTIGONE: (715-725)
O tomb, vaulted bride-bed
in eternal rock,
Soon I shall be with my own again
Where Persephone welcome
the thin ghost underground:
And I shall see my father again,
and you, mother,
And dearest …
A Doll's House
Ibsen · 1879
*Excerpt from Act Three*
**NORA:** I must stand on my own feet if I am ever to understand myself and the world around me. That is why I can no longer stay with you.
**HELMER:** Nora! Nora!
**NORA:** I am leaving …
The Genius Of The Crowd
Bukowski Charles · 1966
there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average
human being to supply any given army on any given day
and the best at murder are those who preach against it
and the best at hate are those who pre …