The Journey is Everything: A Journal of the SeventiesDuke University Press, 1983 - 208 páginas "What does one learn by taking a journey, any journey?" Helen Bevington asks. "I've taken a shaky trip through a decade (to Russia, to the mailbox, to bed) to the end of the 1970s, about which uncomplimentary and increasingly anxious remarks were made by us all--you, me, and the media." This is a book of journeys, to places--Russia, Hawaii, Italy, Yugoslavia, Greece, the South Seas, the Rhine, Australia, New Zealand, New Mexico--and to the classroom at Duke University where she was Professor of English until her retirement in 1976. Since everything is a journey, the book is concerned with travel of all kinds, in books, in memories, in people living and dead, a lighthearted search for Eden on this planet but a more serious search for survival in the troubled decade of the 1970s. |
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... husband , or to the street where Dostoevski lived . But I would lose my historians . Since they came to look at history , at history we look . For this one needs the Cyrillic alphabet that I'm sorry Saint Cyril took the trouble to ...
... husband , or to the street where Dostoevski lived . But I would lose my historians . Since they came to look at history , at history we look . For this one needs the Cyrillic alphabet that I'm sorry Saint Cyril took the trouble to ...
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... husband was executed , her son imprisoned ( " You are my son and my terror too " ) . A woman in a Leningrad prison asked , " Can you put this into words ? " She replied , “ I can . ” In 1946 she was denounced , forbidden to publish ...
... husband was executed , her son imprisoned ( " You are my son and my terror too " ) . A woman in a Leningrad prison asked , " Can you put this into words ? " She replied , “ I can . ” In 1946 she was denounced , forbidden to publish ...
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... husband called her a lady of grace , mistress of happiness , wife endowed with his favor . They rode through the streets of Amarna locked in each other's arms . Nefertiti , Egypt's queen thirty centuries ago , was married at fifteen to ...
... husband called her a lady of grace , mistress of happiness , wife endowed with his favor . They rode through the streets of Amarna locked in each other's arms . Nefertiti , Egypt's queen thirty centuries ago , was married at fifteen to ...
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... husband , husband with girlfriend , girlfriend with poet , round and round as poet sleeps with actress , actress with count , count with prostitute on the same old merry - go- round . ( I don't know why I say “ sleep . " Back in the ...
... husband , husband with girlfriend , girlfriend with poet , round and round as poet sleeps with actress , actress with count , count with prostitute on the same old merry - go- round . ( I don't know why I say “ sleep . " Back in the ...
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... Husband ( quoth she ) which book's form should I take ? Marry ( said he ) t'were best an almanake . The reason wherefore I do wish thee so Is , every year we have a new , you know . A half century later along came John Dryden ...
... Husband ( quoth she ) which book's form should I take ? Marry ( said he ) t'were best an almanake . The reason wherefore I do wish thee so Is , every year we have a new , you know . A half century later along came John Dryden ...
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Alamos asked beautiful Betty bird blue bomb called century child climbed confessional poets D. H. Lawrence dancing David death diary died Dubrovnik Duke E. B. White eyes face faeries feet Fiji Fijians garden German girl gold hair happy hate husband Jan Morris John journey Kathleen Raine kissed lady laughed Lenin letter lived look lover Lowell Maori married Mexico miles mind Moscow mother mountain naked never night Nixon one's palace paradise Peterhof poem poet poetry Rhine Robert Lowell rock Rotorua Russian Sarah says smiling stopped streets student Sylvia Plath Tahiti talk tell thing thought told tonight took town trees turned Virginia Woolf W. H. Auden walked Wallace Stevens West Berlin White wife woman women words write wrote young
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Página 205 - For time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And, with his arms outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer: welcome ever smiles, And farewell goes out sighing.
Página 94 - With a more riotous appetite. Down from the waist they are centaurs, though women all above : but to the girdle do the gods inherit, beneath is all the fiends' ; there's hell, there's darkness, there is the sulphurous pit, burning, scalding, stench, consumption.
Página 108 - If I've killed one man, I've killed two— The vampire who said he was you And drank my blood for a year, Seven years, if you want to know. Daddy, you can lie back now. There's a stake in your fat black heart And the villagers never liked you.
Página 60 - A man who has not been in Italy is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see. The grand object of travelling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean.
Página 192 - It is an illusion that we were ever alive, Lived in the houses of mothers, arranged ourselves By our own motions in a freedom of air. Regard the freedom of seventy years ago. It is no longer air. The houses still stand, Though they are rigid in rigid emptiness.
Página 49 - Dame, at our door Drowned, and among our shoals, Remember us in the roads, the heaven-haven of the Reward : Our King back, oh, upon English souls! Let him caster in us, be a dayspring to the dimness of us, be a crimson-cresseted east, More brightening her, rare-dear Britain, as his reign rolls, Pride, rose, prince, hero of us, high-priest, 280 Our hearts' charity's hearth's fire, our thoughts
Página 141 - SEXUAL intercourse began In nineteen sixty-three (Which was rather late for me) — Between the end of the Chatterley ban And the Beatles
Página 142 - I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. — ROBERT FROST, THE ROAD NOT TAKEN...
Página 74 - There was an Old Man of Thermopylae, who never did anything properly ; But they said, " If you choose to boil Eggs in your Shoes, You shall never remain in Thermopylae.
Página 176 - WHAT PEOPLE WILL PUT UP WITH THERE is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves. They will put up with present suffering, with the certainty of death, with solitude, with shame, with wrong, with the expectation of eternal damnation. In the face of such things, they can not only be merry for the moment, but solemnly thank God for having brought them into existence.