Vulgar words in The Pleasures of Ignorance (Page 1)
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There was nothing real except the present in which we lived--a present in which all the human beings were kind, in which a dim-sighted grandfather sang songs (especially a song in which the chorus began "Free and easy"), in which aunts brought us animal biscuits out of town, in which there was neither man-servant nor maid-servant, neither ox nor ass, that did not seem to go about with a bright face.
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Donne once wrote a poem to a lady who had been bitten by the same flea as himself, arguing that this was a good reason why she should allow him to make love to her.
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Do they not stand still at the most unreasonable places with the obstinacy of an ass?
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The Black-and-Tans, who, like the Most High, are no respecters of persons, called on the judge to descend, using the quaint colloquial formula: "Come down, you Irish bastard; put up your hands."
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The comedy of a judge's being addressed as an Irish bastard did not strike him.
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It is not merely that somebody or other was called "You Irish bastard," but that the wrong person was called "You Irish bastard."
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And never was it so full of a number of things as since a Coalition Government came into power--queer, delightful things, for instance, like policemen who call judges "bastard," as who should say: "Cheerio, old thing!"
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Not a joke--well, one joke, when a fat man saw a poor brown lop-eared ass in a field of daisies, and called out: "There's the winner o' the Durby!"