Paternity, a Legal Fiction/ James Joyce
Fatherhood, in the sense of conscious begetting, is unknown to man. It is a mystical estate, an apostolic succession, from only begetter to only begotten. On that mystery and not on the madonna which the cunning Italian intellect flung to the mob of Europe the church is founded and founded irremovably because founded, […]
Talk About Girls/ William Faulkner
Five years later maybe I would have said, “Maybe that’s her price.” Because she got in trouble at last. Or so they said. I don’t know, except that most of the talk about girls, women, is envy or retaliation by the ones that don’t dare to and the ones that failed to. But while he […]
