Vulgar words in Man and Superman (Page 1)

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ass x 4
buffoon x 1
damaged goods x 1
damn x 1
make love x 2
            

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~   ~   ~   Sentence 36   ~   ~   ~

The heroine she impersonates is not allowed to discuss the elemental relations of men and women: all her romantic twaddle about novelet-made love, all her purely legal dilemmas as to whether she was married or "betrayed," quite miss our hearts and worry our minds.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 294   ~   ~   ~

Richard III, too, is delightful as the whimsical comedian who stops a funeral to make love to the corpse's widow; but when, in the next act, he is replaced by a stage villain who smothers babies and offs with people's heads, we are revolted at the imposture and repudiate the changeling.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 308   ~   ~   ~

All the rest is at worst mere misfortune or mortality: this alone is misery, slavery, hell on earth; and the revolt against it is the only force that offers a man's work to the poor artist, whom our personally minded rich people would so willingly employ as pandar, buffoon, beauty monger, sentimentalizer and the like.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,325   ~   ~   ~

Tavy: don't you be a selfish ass.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,200   ~   ~   ~

[patting him on the back] Bear it like a man, Tavy, even if you feel it like an ass.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 4,185   ~   ~   ~

This ass, when he was not lying about me, was maundering about some woman whom he saw once in the street.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 4,209   ~   ~   ~

There are limits to what a mule or an ass will stand; but Man will suffer himself to be degraded until his vileness becomes so loathsome to his oppressors that they themselves are forced to reform it.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 4,698   ~   ~   ~

Oh, damn your sophistries!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 6,182   ~   ~   ~

The young men will scorn me as one who has sold out: to the young women I, who have always been an enigma and a possibility, shall be merely somebody else's property--and damaged goods at that: a secondhand man at best.

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