The Evil within illusions
Do not forget your better thoughts. You are entering scenes of illusion, where there is little charity, and almost no sincerity, where cruel feelings are instilled, the love of flattery and dominion awakened, and all the evil and enchantments of the world beset you.
Sheridan Le Fanu – Willing to Die (1872)
The Evil within ambiguity
Sheridan Le Fanu – Willing to Die (1872)
The Evil within ambiguity
A sinner stubborn in impenitence, defending herself by a paltry ambiguity that had all the evil of a direct lie.
George Gissing - The Odd Women (1893)
The Evil within logic
A certain logic, very supple, very implacable, and very agile, is at the service of evil, and excels in stabbing truth in the dark. These are blows struck by the devil at Providence.
Victor Hugo – The Man Who Laughs (1869)
The Evil within vanity
Mighty pride, with its thousand baleful heads, stirred his wretched heart. Vanity, that powerful agent within us, works us measureless evil.
Victor Hugo – The Man Who Laughs (1869)
"The Man who Laughs"? Not our Keir. "The man who always looks constipated" might be a better description.
ReplyDeleteIn fact, I have difficulty in imagining any of the current cabinet actually laughing, except in a staged way. Only Lammy, maybe, if you showed him a shiny toy that made an interesting sound.
Sam - I can't see our Keir laughing either. He comes across as not at all genial, but people in his position do need that, they need a genial outlook without being soft. He's incomplete, a man with something important missing.
ReplyDeleteI can imagine Rayner laughing, but not in circumstances I care to dwell on.