Vulgar words in Hypatia — or New Foes with an Old Face (Page 1)
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Next, philosophically, or according to the intuitions of the pure reason--in order that you might, by beholding the magnificence of that great civilisation which your fellows wish to destroy, learn that you are an ass, and a tortoise, and a nonentity, and so beholding yourself to be nothing, may be moved to become something.'
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Would it not be more philosophical to conclude that I, who never saw or felt or heard this which I call myself, am what I have seen, heard, and felt--and no more and no less--that sensation which I call that horse, that dead man, that jackass, those forty thousand two-legged jackasses who appear to be running for their lives below there, having got hold of this same notion of their being one thing each--as I choose to fancy in my foolish habit of imputing to them the same disease of thought which I find in myself--crucify the word!--The folly of my ancestors--if I ever had any--prevents my having any better expression.... Why should I not be all I feel--that sky, those clouds--the whole universe?
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The very sound of those grown-children's rattles turns me sick.... One conceited ass in a generation increasing labour and sorrow, and dying after all even as the fool dies, and ten million brutes and slaves, just where their fore-fathers were, and where their children will be after them, to the end of the farce....
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And as he looked, he began to feel it a pleasure such as his weary heart had not known for many a year, simply to watch her.... 'Positively there is a foolish enjoyment after all in making other fleas smile.... Ass that I am!
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Did I not know that he, too, would prove himself like all the rest--an ass?....
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'After all, it will serve the hussy right.
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'I don't; if you had been, you would have been making love like a man to that heathen woman many a month ago.'
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She must have mercy on me, of her own free will, or--let her pine and die in that accursed prison; and then a scratch with the trusty old dagger for her father, and another for myself, will save him from any more superstitions, and me from any more philosophic doubts, for a few aeons of ages, till we start again in new lives--he, I suppose, as a jackass, and I as a baboon.
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Faustus, the deacon, makes them a speech; charges the leader of the robbers, like young David, with a stone, beats his brains out therewith, strips him in true Homeric fashion, and routs the Ausurians with their leader's sword; returns and erects a trophy in due classic form, and saves the whole valley.'
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Hist, you hussies!' cried she to the girls upstairs, clapping her hands loudly.
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Bring a mirror here, hussy!