Mmkay, this is a really powerful-but really long- quote and I really hope あなた take just a few 分 out of whatever you're doing and read it.
"I was telling あなた about evil, now that I know what it is. It's what makes a man get drunk and press a red hot poker on his child's back. It's what makes men have to queue for hours at the dock gates for a chance of a job when there are only a dozen jobs for a hundred men, so they fight each other in order to get them, and the foreman laugh and egg them on. It's what takes an old couple who've got nothing left but each other and splits them up to go in the workhouse so they each die alone. It's ... what takes rent out of tenements and slums and refuses the responsibility of mending the drains, so that children have to wade knee-deep through filth to get into their houses....Don't interrupt. Don't open your mouth. Listen to me and learn.
Evil....it's what makes a family starve--the family I heard about the other day, five of them, father and mother and three children all dead, with nothing in their little room, nothing, because they'd pawned every spoon and every blanket and every chair, and there was no work, and they starved to death. And I've never gone without a meal in my whole life. My city. The same city あなた live in--this happens. That's evil. And あなた know what's at the ハート, 心 of it all? Eh? The gnawing poison cancer destroying and eating and laying waste at the ハート, 心 of it all? It's not only you, あなた poor pitiful man; it's me, too. Me and ten thousand others. Because we have shares in the companies that own those buildings and doesn't repair the drains, and we make money out of the docks that prosper によって denying men work, and because we've never looked. All this time, all the money we've made によって buying and selling and buying again--we never knew what it meant. Didn't know what a pound meant. Didn't know what a shilling meant.
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No, I never intended this. あなた didn't deserve it. But I did it. Just as I made that family starve and put those men out of work and I drove that man mad with misery and despair so that he tortured his child with a red-hot poker. I did it, without knowing. So I'm guilty, me and all the other share-holders and speculators and capitalists. あなた know where evil is? It's not just in you, it's in....pretending not to know things once you've seen them. Seeing something bad and shutting your eyes, turning away. All right, I didn't know. But there's no excuse now that I do." Sally Lockhart (Philup Pullman) pg. 349-351, The Tiger in the Well.
I hope あなた took the time to read this. Because eve though some of it might not make sense out of context (and 19th century England) it's all true.
Do あなた have any powerful quotes? Feel free to post them in the comments!
"I was telling あなた about evil, now that I know what it is. It's what makes a man get drunk and press a red hot poker on his child's back. It's what makes men have to queue for hours at the dock gates for a chance of a job when there are only a dozen jobs for a hundred men, so they fight each other in order to get them, and the foreman laugh and egg them on. It's what takes an old couple who've got nothing left but each other and splits them up to go in the workhouse so they each die alone. It's ... what takes rent out of tenements and slums and refuses the responsibility of mending the drains, so that children have to wade knee-deep through filth to get into their houses....Don't interrupt. Don't open your mouth. Listen to me and learn.
Evil....it's what makes a family starve--the family I heard about the other day, five of them, father and mother and three children all dead, with nothing in their little room, nothing, because they'd pawned every spoon and every blanket and every chair, and there was no work, and they starved to death. And I've never gone without a meal in my whole life. My city. The same city あなた live in--this happens. That's evil. And あなた know what's at the ハート, 心 of it all? Eh? The gnawing poison cancer destroying and eating and laying waste at the ハート, 心 of it all? It's not only you, あなた poor pitiful man; it's me, too. Me and ten thousand others. Because we have shares in the companies that own those buildings and doesn't repair the drains, and we make money out of the docks that prosper によって denying men work, and because we've never looked. All this time, all the money we've made によって buying and selling and buying again--we never knew what it meant. Didn't know what a pound meant. Didn't know what a shilling meant.
...
No, I never intended this. あなた didn't deserve it. But I did it. Just as I made that family starve and put those men out of work and I drove that man mad with misery and despair so that he tortured his child with a red-hot poker. I did it, without knowing. So I'm guilty, me and all the other share-holders and speculators and capitalists. あなた know where evil is? It's not just in you, it's in....pretending not to know things once you've seen them. Seeing something bad and shutting your eyes, turning away. All right, I didn't know. But there's no excuse now that I do." Sally Lockhart (Philup Pullman) pg. 349-351, The Tiger in the Well.
I hope あなた took the time to read this. Because eve though some of it might not make sense out of context (and 19th century England) it's all true.
Do あなた have any powerful quotes? Feel free to post them in the comments!
This novel of awesome beauty and power is a moving saga about people, relationships, and the boundaries of love.
Through Jean M. Auel’s magnificent storytelling we are taken back to the dawn of modern humans, and with a girl named Ayla we are swept up in the harsh and beautiful Ice Age world they shared with the ones who called themselves The Clan of the Cave Bear.
Besides the book there was a movie in the 80's starring Daryl Hanna (Kill bill).
Totally Amazing!! Every Woman Should read it!!
The Story
While 読書 the novel, I did not quite understand the story and it was not until the 秒 half of the story that I managed to understand. It telling us to follow our dreams if a person desires for it!
The Characters
Santiago (or the Boy in this story) is a very likable character because he manage to understand what the Alchemist is telling despite being relatively young, he is my favourite character out of the novel!
The other characters like the Englishman and just to name a few are very ambiguous, if あなた ask me.
Is It Worth Reading?
Yes, I highly recommend this book for those who have not read it yet!