It could have been very proper and very pure; but it was not music, painting, poetry and joy incarnated in a stupendous lady. Once we see him, we see only by way of the slender vary of our own limited scale of vibrations; in order that we see him however partly, and therefore mistily, or hear his voice however faintly, or maybe not at all, as it might cowl a variety of vibrations per second fairly one facet or the opposite of our personal scale of sound vibrations. Well, these two speeches always alarmed me; for the primary meant that the lady’s impulse had been solely to throw down my fortifications and acquire my citadel; and the second openly announced that henceforth she regarded me as her property, and counted my time as already wholly at her disposal. DON JUAN How if a time comes when this shall cease to be true? DON JUAN I did so purely for the sake of alliteration, Ana; and that i shall make no additional allusion to them. What you imply is that sensible people make the best of each other. Someone talked about that this was the tactic utilized by Jelly Belly to make their extra unusual jellybeans, like grass-flavoured jellybeans.
The medical doctors of divinity bade me consider what I must do to save lots of my soul; however I used to be not a spiritual hypochondriac any more than a bodily one, and wouldn’t bother myself about that either; in order that they called me Atheist and went their means. I instructed him I didn’t care whether or not he got into parliament or not; so he referred to as me Mugwump and went his method. I replied that I used to be not a hypochondriac; so that they called me Ignoramus and went their way. If the spermatic veins of an immature boy should turn into enlarged (varicocele), break up a younger cherry-tree down the center to its roots while leaving it standing, in such a manner that the boy might be passed via the cleft. Also, whether or not photographs may be taken, and if these are for use within the promotion of the film. And now, since we are, with that exception, agreed so far, will you not agree with me further that Life has not measured the success of its attempts at godhead by the beauty or bodily perfection of the consequence, since in each these respects the birds, as our friend Aristophanes long ago pointed out, are so extraordinarily superior, with their energy of flight and their lovely plumage, and, might I add, the touching poetry of their loves and nestings, that it’s inconceivable that Life, having as soon as produced them, ought to, if love and beauty had been her object, begin off on one other line and labor on the clumsy elephant and the hideous ape, whose grandchildren we are?
DON JUAN No; for although that distinction is the true important distinction-Dona Ana has, I admit, gone straight to the real point-but it’s not a difference of love or chastity, and even constancy; for twelve children by twelve completely different husbands would have replenished the earth perhaps extra successfully. DON JUAN No, perverse satan that you’re, a thousand instances no. Life was driving at brains-at its darling object: an organ by which it might probably attain not only self-consciousness however self-understanding. My conscience mentioned No. My chivalry and pity for her mentioned No. My prudent regard for myself stated No. My ear, practised on a thousand songs and symphonies; my eye, exercised on a thousand paintings; tore her voice, her options, her coloration to shreds. Then came the romantic man, the Artist, together with his love songs and his paintings and his poems; and with him I had nice delight for many years, and some profit; for I cultivated my senses for his sake; and his songs taught me to hear higher, his paintings to see higher, and his poems to really feel extra deeply. I admire what Love Island did for me. Are we agreed that Life is a power which has made innumerable experiments in organizing itself; that the mammoth and the man, the mouse and the megatherium, the flies and the fleas and the Fathers of the Church, are all kind of successful makes an attempt to build up that raw pressure into greater and better individuals, the perfect particular person being omnipotent, omniscient, infallible, and withal utterly, unilludedly self-aware: In short, a god?