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be expected to be more virtuous than a nation.

p 72.

NY times Book Review March 18 - 84 review by Robert Coover on American Novels. p 37

It's a kind of voyeurism, which remains a dominate feature of this particular chapter of American mythology. There seems to be a great unappeasable craving to see what cannot ordinarily be seen. Maybe it's just that if the whole world is privately owned, we have to sneak a peek to get a piece of it, possession being completely privy to the vilest corners, the darkest secrets (incest and childmurder are big this year).

3-20-84

Most conversions begin with a revulsion from the thing which in the end will prove irresistible.

p 178 Anthony Trollope by Cockshut - 1968

"Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising." Cyril Connolly

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He Knew He was Right - Anthony Trollope 1869

p 46 - "The unpleasantness of this world consists chiefly in the fact that when a man wants wages he must earn them. The Christian philosophers have a theory about it. Don't they call it the primeval fall, original sin, and that kind of thing?"

p 13 (book 2)- "There are people who fancy that nobody cares for them," said Brooke.

"Indeed there are Mr. Burgess; and it is so natural."

"Why natural?"

"Just as it is natural that there should be dogs and cats that are petted and loved and made much of, and others that have to crawl through life as they can, cuffed and kicked and starved."

"That depends on the accident of possession," said Brooke.

"So does the other. How many people there are that don't seem to belong to anybody, - and if they do, they're no good to anybody. Tey're not cuffed exactly, or starved; but - "

"You mean that they don't get their share of affection?"

"They get perhaps as much as they deserve,"