Hermione and Her Little Group of Serious ThinkersFaddish woman collects group of female busybodies about her to increase her own self-esteem. |
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Page 121 - This little pig went to market. This little pig stayed at home. This little pig had roast beef. This little pig had none. This little pig cried, "Wee, wee!
Page 11 - And, really, with practice, I think I am going to manage it so that I can turn it off and on— if you get what I mean— almost at will. Because, you know, in certain costumes that look would be quite unbecoming. Quite out of Harmony. And Inner Beauty only comes through Inner Harmony, doesn't it? Harmony! Harmony! Oh, to be in accord with the Infinite! Nearly every night before I go to bed I ask myself, "Have I vibrated in tune with the Infinite today, or have I failed?
Page 21 - Look at Me ! Behold, I am founding a New Movement! Observe me. ... I am in Revolt! I revolt! Now persecute me, persecute me, damn you, persecute me, curse you, persecute me! Philistine, Bourgeois, Slave, Serf, Capitalist, Respectabilities that you are, Persecute me! Bah! You ask me, do you, what I am in revolt against? Against you, fool, dolt, idiot, against you, against everything ! Against Heaven, Hell and punctuation . . . against: Life, Death, rhyme and rhythm . . . Persecute me, now, persecute...
Page 135 - I'd be willing to do anything — simply anything ! — to help those poor, unfortunate convicts. Collect money, you know, or give talks, or read books about them, or make any other sacrifice. Even get them jobs. One ought to help them to start over again, you know. Though as for hiring one of them myself, or rather getting Papa to — well, really, you know, one must draw the line somewhere ! But it's a perfectly fascinating subject to take up, prison reform is. It gives one such a sense of brotherhood...
Page 14 - ISN'T Heredity wonderful, though! We've been going into it rather deeply — My Little Group of Serious Thinkers, you know. And, really, when you get into it, it's quite complicated. All about Homozygotes and Heterozygotes, you know. The Homozygotes are — well, you might call them the aristocrats, you know ; thoroughbreds. And the Heterozygotes are the hybrids. Only, of course, they don't need to be goats at all.
Page 10 - And from a child I have had such a high-strung, sensitive nervous organization that opposition of any sort has made me ill. There are some temperaments like that. Once when I was quite small and Mamma threatened to spank me, I had convulsions. And nothing but opposition, opposition, opposition now! Only we advanced thinkers know what it is to suffer! To go through fire for our ideals! And what is physical suffering by the side of spiritual suffering?