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Updated: May 11, 2025
But I can't help seeing that there are two kinds of her. When she is simple and obvious, she seems to reside in bare facts, which we may easily respect too much, for what are they but blackguard carnalities? Preraphaelitism in art, Realism in literature, might be all very well if they would keep their place which is in the kitchen.
Is not this the extreme refinement of torture? Does not the agony of the cross sink into insignificance beside such spiritual agony? You rail at the cruelty of the Jews who crucified their Savior, and yet you crucify your Savior, with a thousandfold degree of torture, every day of your life, by your persistence in the carnalities and foolishness of mortal thought and action.
He seeks to reproduce his whole nature in a book, reproduce it with all its contradictions and carnalities, the good and the bad, the coarse and the fine, the body and the soul, to give free swing to himself, trusting to natural checks and compensations to ensure a good result at last, but not at all disturbed if you find parts of it bad as in creation itself.
The huge pillars themselves were symbols, figures, carnalities; the orgiastic spirit of that worship lived and writhed in the contorted bronze of the lamps, the twisted gold of the cups, the chiselled marble of the tanks.... How far had he proceeded?
His sentimental and unintelligent belief in theories that she knows quite well are not true e.g., the theory that she shrinks from him, and is modestly appalled by the banal carnalities of marriage itself gives her a weapon against him which she drives home with instinctive and compelling art.
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