John Oliver Hobbes

Name: The Annotated The Tales of John Oliver Hobbes/Some Emotions and a Moral — Part I, Chapter I
Author: John Oliver Hobbes

The Annotated The Tales of John Oliver Hobbes… (1894)

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“The Annotated The Tales of John Oliver Hobbes/Some Emotions and a Moral — Part I, Chapter I”, published in 1894, is a work by John Oliver Hobbes. It explores elements such as Provence, Lady Hemingway and Belshazzar.

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John Oliver Hobbes, The Annotated The Tales of John Oliver Hobbes… (1894)

“ The young woman with the low-comedy nose looked at him gratefully from under the rim of her hat. He wondered why.
"I know the kind of thing," said the Bonnet. "Literature is all very well if you make a regular business of it, but the moment you regard it as an art, you're practically done for. We all know you'll never earn a penny."
"But Godfrey's a clever chap," said the Captain; "he must be clever, you know, Sarah—everybody says so."
"What's the use of being clever if you're never heard of?" said Sarah, who was no other than Lady Hemingway, widow of Sir James Hemingway, Baronet. ”

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John Oliver Hobbes, The Annotated The Tales of John Oliver Hobbes… (1894)

“ You have always avoided sympathy, and yet you grumble because you are out of touch with the world."
"Sympathy," said Provence, "is the one emotion which seems most perfect as it becomes most animal: in its human aspect it too often lapses into the moralizing grandmother. Animals don't ask questions and cannot answer back. A dog can put more soul into a look than a kind friend can talk in an hour."
He had ceased pacing the floor, and was now sitting in a dark corner of the room. ”

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John Oliver Hobbes, The Annotated The Tales of John Oliver Hobbes… (1894)

“ My ideal woman is a combination of the Madonna and the Wood-nymph—with the Wood-nymph element predominating. [9] As for marriage, I fear it is a sadly overrated blessing. Wives are either too much devil or too much angel. Fancy eating bacon every morning of one's life with a blameless creature who was dangling one-quarter of the way from heaven and three-quarters from earth! I should die of respect for her."
"And what if she were too much devil?"
"I should love her horribly," [10] said Provence. "That is the worst of devils—they are so entirely adorable. ”

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John Oliver Hobbes, The Annotated The Tales of John Oliver Hobbes… (1894)

“ Who can use his eyes and not wonder whether it may not be better to live a satisfied hog than a dissatisfied philosopher? Some days I have almost succeeded in not feeling—almost persuaded myself that after all there is nothing either good or honest—almost doubted my own sincerity in hoping I was mistaken. ”

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John Oliver Hobbes, The Annotated The Tales of John Oliver Hobbes… (1894)

“ The word 'happiness' seems to play the writing on the wall to each man's Belshazzar, and each Belshazzar thinks himself a Daniel. [2] From your point of view, Provence, [3] I should say it simply meant the craving for a new sensation. As for myself—at the risk of appearing frigid—I think there is much to take hold of in the Greek notion: that man is happiest to whom from day to day no evil happens. ”

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John Oliver Hobbes, The Annotated The Tales of John Oliver Hobbes… (1894)

“ Provence is a region in southwest France containing the French Riviera. Mediterranean Sea resort towns in the Provence region, such as Nice and Menton, were popular with Victorian travellers.↑ Given that Provence and Golightly are discussing idealism and its relationship to happiness, “the Greek notion” is probably a reference to Plato’s "idealist" philosophy, in particular the character of Socrates’ statement, in the Apology: “no evil can happen to a good man, neither in life nor after death” (41c-e) . ”

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John Oliver Hobbes, The Annotated The Tales of John Oliver Hobbes… (1894)

“ You may know a man for twenty years, and in the twenty-first year he will do something which will make your twenty years' experience count for nought. Then you say, "I should never have expected this from A.' Just as if A would have expected it himself. ”

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John Oliver Hobbes, The Annotated The Tales of John Oliver Hobbes… (1894)

“ Provence laughed. "Man is at best a learned pig," he said, "and the pig nature has its promptings. It will root for truffles in Sahara or Paradise." [14] Then with characteristic abruptness he wished Golightly good-night, and left the house.
When Golightly went down into the drawing-room [15] —for he and Provence had been talking in a small room known to the housemaid as the library—he found three ladies there and a gentleman. ”

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John Oliver Hobbes, The Annotated The Tales of John Oliver Hobbes… (1894)

“ Lady Hemingway later refers to her At Home as "my Thursdays." Ladies would invite guests by giving them a card, as Lady Hemingway later says she will with Provence.↑ "rum": a colloquialism for "odd" or "peculiar."↑ A form of "air kiss". ”

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