 This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man he will never on his heap of mud keep still. He want to be so, and again he want to be so. . . ." He moved his hand up, then down.  Lord Jim (Paperbound) - Page 213Limited preview - About this book
 | Scotland - 1900 - 1174 pages
...great poet : That is the question. . . .' He went on nodding sympathetically. . . . ' How to be ! Ach ! How to be." "He stood up with the tips of his fingers...never be. . . . In a dream. . . .' " He lowered the glass-lid, the automatic lock clicked sharply, and taking up the case in both hands he bore it religiously... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 422 pages
...great poet: That is the question. . . .' He went on nodding sympathetically. . . . ' How to be ! Ach ! How to be.' " He stood up with the tips of his fingers...very fine fellow so fine as he can never be. ... In a jjream. . . .' __ __ "He lowered the glass lid, the automatic lock clicked sharply, and taking up the... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - Fiction - 1905 - 408 pages
...great poet: That is the question. . . .' He went on nodding sympathetically. . . . ' How to be ! Adi ! How to be.' " He stood up with the tips of his fingers...religiously away to its place, passing out of the bright i circle of the lamp into the ring of fainter light — into shapeless dusk at last. It had an odd... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - Adventure stories - 1920 - 446 pages
...great poet: That is the question. . . .' He went on nodding sympathetically. . . . 'How to be! Ach! How to be.' "He stood up with the tips of his fingers...a very fine fellow— so fine as he can never be. . . . Jn a dream. . . .' "He lowered the glass lid, the automatic lock clicked sharply, and taking... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - Atonement - 1921 - 444 pages
...great poet: That is the question. . . .' He went on nodding sympathetically. . . . 'How to be! Ach I How to be.' "He stood up with the tips of his fingers...a very fine fellow — so fine as he can never be. . . . InjL-droam. . . .' "He lowered the glass lid, the automatic lock clicked sharply, and taking... | |
 | Jacques Berthoud - Literary Criticism - 1978 - 204 pages
...heap of dirt'; he cannot help recoiling from the squalor and yearning for the beauty. And so, if'every time he shuts his eyes he sees himself as a very fine fellow - so fine as he can never be', this represents an impulse which, being a part of the very conditions of human existence, man has no... | |
 | Ian Watt - Literary Criticism - 1981 - 400 pages
...man he will never on his heap of mud keep still. He want to be so, and again he want to be so. ... He wants to be a saint, and he wants to be a devil...fellow — so fine as he can never be. ... In a dream" (213). So fine as he can never be. The memorable metaphysical eloquence which Conrad generates from... | |
 | Martin Price - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 400 pages
...instead, consumed by conflicting dreams: "He wants to be a saint, and he wants to be a devil—and every time he shuts his eyes he sees himself as a very fine fellow—so fine as he can never be." As Stein contemplates the problem, he too seems to lose substance... | |
 | Richard Ambrosini - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 274 pages
...dovetail with the whole argument: "We want in so many different ways to be," he begins, then adds, man "wants to be a saint, and he wants to be a devil —...fellow - so fine as he can never be ... In a dream . . ." (213). Saint and devil are opposite aspects of the same dream. Jim is romantic because, in his... | |
 | Russell West, Russell West-Pavlov - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1996 - 194 pages
...buffeting by real experience. Stein, who has a perfect understanding of this imaginary mechanism, comments, "every time he shuts his eyes he sees himself as a...fellow - so fine as he can never be.... In a dream.... And because you not always can keep your eyes shut there conies the real trouble - the heart pain -... | |
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