George Sylvester Viereck

Name: The House of the Vampire — XX
Author: George Sylvester Viereck

The House of the Vampire — XX (1907)

Summary

“The House of the Vampire — XX”, published in 1907, is a work by George Sylvester Viereck. It explores elements such as radium, Reginald and growth.

Quotes from The House of the Vampire — XX (George Sylvester Viereck)

George Sylvester Viereck, The House of the Vampire — XX (1907)

“ Have you ever tasted a bottle of wine that had been uncorked for a long time? If you have, you have probably found it flat—the essence was gone, evaporated. Thus it is when we care for people. Probably—no, assuredly—there is some principle prisoned in their souls, or in the windings of their brains, which, when escaped, leaves them insipid, unprofitable and devoid of interest to us. Sometimes this essence—not necessarily the finest element in a man's or a woman's nature, but soul-stuff that we lack— disappears. ”

[↩︎]

Source: Wikisource

George Sylvester Viereck, The House of the Vampire — XX (1907)

“ Single-handed, they accomplish what nations dared not hope; with Titan strides they scale the stars and succeed where millions fail. In art they live, the makers of new periods, the dreamers of new styles. They make themselves the vocal sun-glasses of God. Homer and Shakespeare, Hugo and Balzac—they concentrate the dispersed rays of a thousand lesser luminaries in one singing flame that, like a giant torch, lights up humanity's path. ”

[↩︎]

Source: Wikisource

George Sylvester Viereck, The House of the Vampire — XX (1907)

“ In the ordinary processes of life the law of action and reaction is indeed potent. But no law is without exception. Think of radium, for instance, with its constant and seemingly inexhaustible outflow of energy. It is a difficult thing to imagine, but our scientific men have accepted it as a fact. Why should we find it more difficult to conceive of a tremendous and infinite absorptive element? ”

[↩︎]

Source: Wikisource

George Sylvester Viereck, The House of the Vampire — XX (1907)

“ There are radium-souls that radiate without loss of energy, but also without increase. And there are souls, the reverse of radium, with unlimited absorptive capacities.”
“Vampire-souls,” she observed, with a shudder, and her face blanched.
“No,” he said, “don't say that.” And then he suddenly seemed to grow in stature. His face was ablaze, like the face of a god.
“In every age,” he replied, with solemnity, “there are giants who attain to a greatness which by natural growth no men could ever have reached. But in their youth a vision came to them, which they set out to seek. ”

[↩︎]

Source: Wikisource

George Sylvester Viereck, The House of the Vampire — XX (1907)

“ But to accomplish their mission they need a will of iron and the wit of a hundred men. And from the iron they take the strength, and from a hundred men's brains they absorb their wisdom. Divine missionaries, they appear in all departments of life. ”

[↩︎]

Source: Wikisource

George Sylvester Viereck, The House of the Vampire — XX (1907)

“ Some succeed. They are the chosen. Carpenter's sons they are, who have laid down the Law of a World for milleniums to come; or simple Corsicans, before whose eagle eye have quaked the kingdoms of the earth. ”

[↩︎]

Source: Wikisource

George Sylvester Viereck, The House of the Vampire — XX (1907)

“ We all possess that faculty in a degree. The secret of my strength is my ability to reject every element that is harmful or inessential to the completion of my self. This did not come to me easily, nor without a struggle. ”

[↩︎]

Source: Wikisource

George Sylvester Viereck, The House of the Vampire — XX (1907)

“ They take the stones of fancy to build them a palace in the kingdom of truth, projecting into reality dreams, monstrous and impossible. Often they fail and, tumbling from their airy heights, end a quixotic career. ”

[↩︎]

Source: Wikisource

George Sylvester Viereck, The House of the Vampire — XX (1907)

“ In fact, it invariably disappears. It may be that it has been transformed in the processes of their growth; it may also be that it has utterly vanished by some inadvertence, or that we ourselves have absorbed it.”
“Then we throw them away?” Ethel asked, pale, but dry-eyed. A shudder passed through her body and she clinched her glass nervously. At that moment Reginald resembled a veritable Prince of Darkness, sinister and beautiful, painted by the hand of a modern master. Then, for a
space, he again became the man of the world. ”

George Sylvester Viereck

Summary

Quotes from The House of the Vampire — XX (George Sylvester Viereck)

Common terms

Similar works

Get perspective with Kwize: daily news enlightened by great literature