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To which I reply, first, that heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable, that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside; and that the genuine popular verdict on it is expressed in the proverb "Heaven for holiness and Hell for company."
'I saw in the fashionable world, he observes in conclusion, 'only too frequently, and with few exceptions, a profound vulgarity of thought; an immorality little veiled or adorned; the most undisguised arrogance; and the coarsest neglect of all kindly feelings and attentions haughtily assumed for the sake of shining in a false and despicable refinement; even more inane and intolerable to a healthy mind than the awkward stiffness of the declared Nobodies.
Fortunately I was well held by the rope against the white grey edge of the blue abyss, while my legs kicked freely in the illimitable inane. Is there anything in the world like being aroused in the grey of dawn by the man with the axe and the rope?
"It was precisely to get your help that I came in. I'm tired of those confounded dinners. You know yourself that they are all alike the same people, the same flowers, the same things to eat, and the same inane twaddle in the shape of talk. Who cares about them anyway?" "Well, I like that," she interrupted.
They are always round the corner or rather round the two corners and they come on in a couple of streams and meet in the center; and when they are in their proper position they smile. There is nothing like the stage peasants' smile in this world nothing so perfectly inane, so calmly imbecile. They are so happy. They don't look it, but we know they are because they say so.
She could easily maintain with him the inane chatter of their frivolous life, but she could not talk with the artist, nor he with her, without an effort that was as humiliating as it was apparent.
I do not think Whitman would be enough interested in them to feel contempt toward them. Whitman was a man of tremendous personality, and every line he wrote had a meaning, and his whole work was suffused with a philosophy as was his body with blood. These Reds belong to the same class of inane sensationalists that the Cubists do; they would defy in verse what the Cubists defy in form.
His brother, Philip III., we have just seen, fair and inane, a monster of cruelty, who burned Jews and banished Moors, not from malice, but purely from vacuity of spirit; his head broadens like a pine-apple from the blond crest to the plump jowls.
"You'll have to get up some time or other," he said. "You may just as well start to-day." When he had left the room I appealed to the nurse. "Did you ever," I said, "hear a more inane remark than that? In the first place I have pretty well made up my mind never to get up again. It isn't worth while for all the good I ever get by being up.
What an infinite monotony of existence for the poor old creatures to endure for ever being bored by their own inane personalities for a million aeons! It's simply appalling to think of! But Berkeley wasn't going to be drawn into a theological discussion that was a field which he always sedulously and successfully avoided.
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