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“Trying to imagine E. M. Forster, who found Ulysses indecorous, at a London performance of Lenny Bruce—to which in fact he was once taken. Trying to imagine the same for a time-transported Nathaniel Hawthorne—who during his first visit to Europe was even shocked by the profusion of naked statues.”

Trying Firsts Facts Found Taken Imagine Europe Performances London Naked Shocked Statues Ulysses Hawthorne

Book:The Last Novel

Source: The Last Novel

“Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.”

Firsts Facts Reality Seems Simple Naked Explanation Cloaks Improbable Simple Beauty Hidden Beauty

Book:Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences

Source: Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences

“There is something in human history like retribution; and it is a rule of historical retribution that its instrument be forged not by the offended, but by the offender himself. The first blow dealt to the French monarchy proceeded from the nobility, not from the peasants. The Indian revolt does not commence with the ryots, tortured, dishonoured and stripped naked by the British, but with the sepoys, clad, fed and petted, fatted and pampered by them.”

Source: India, National Liberation and Class Struggles: A Collection of Classical Marxist Writings