7:10 pm - 2003-08-27
Philosophies of E.M. Forster, Take One
"He had neither light nor bell nor had he a brake, but what use are such adjuncts in a land where the cyclist's only hope is to coast from face to face, and just before he collides with each it vanishes?"

"All invitations must proceed from heaven perhaps; perhaps it is futile for men to initiate their own unity, they do but widen the gulfs between them by the attempt."

{concerning what is worthy of the advent into Heaven}"...He became uneasy during the descent to wasps, and was apt to change the conversation. And oranges, cactuses, crystals and mud? and the bacteria inside Mr. Sorley? No, no, this is going too far. We must exclude someone from our gathering, or we shall be left with nothing."

"Round they ran, weedy and knock-kneed---the local physicque was wretched---with an expression on their faces not so much of determination as of a determination to be determined."

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