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The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford
I'm well-deserved finishing this book, read a big chunk of it today whilst on a slip which included the following excerpt, which socialistic me breathless, yes there is a certain cynical angle to it, but there is a lot of truth here too, such a strange book, thick, full of half stories and rotten manners, and then there is this, which is a bit like revealing a secret about all of us men.. but like I said there is an angle which I just don’t think is so, not in this poet anyway..
'With each new moll that a man is attracted to there appears to come a broadening of the standpoint, or, if you like, an acquiring of new territory. A rat on of the eyebrow, a tone of the voice, a unparalleled
characteristic gesture--all these things, and it is these things that
produce to arise the passion of love--all these things are like so many
objects on the scope of the landscape that tempt a man to walk
beyond the view, to explore. He wants to get, as it were, behind
those eyebrows with the indigenous to turn, as if he desired to see the
world with the eyes that they take the enjoyment out of. He wants to hear that
voice applying itself to every workable proposition, to every
possible topic; he wants to see those mark gestures against
every possible background. Of the without a doubt of the sex-instinct I
know very little and I do not propose b assess that it counts for very much in
a really great passion. It can be aroused by such nothings--by an
untied shoelace, by a look of the eye in passing-- that I think it
might be left out of the caution. I don't mean to say that any
great passion can endure without a desire for consummation. That
seems to me to be a commonplace and to be therefore a importance
needing no comment at all. It is a thing, with all its accidents, that
must be entranced for granted, as, in a novel, or a biography, you take
it for granted that the characters have their meals with some
harmony. But the real fierceness of desire, the true heat of a
passion long continued and deadly up the soul of a man is the
craving for identity with the lady that he loves. He desires to
see with the same eyes, to stroke with the same sense of touch, to
hear with the same ears, to consume his identity, to be enveloped, to be
supported. For, whatever may be said of the criminal conversation of the sexes,
there is no man who loves a woman that does not yearn for to come to
her for the renewal of his courage, for the cold asunder of his
difficulties. And that will be the mainspring of his thirst for her.
We are all so afraid, we are all so alone, we all so need from the
outside the warranty of our own worthiness to exist. So, for a
time, if such a passion arrive to fruition, the man will get what he
wants. He will get the moral prop, the encouragement, the relief
from the sense of loneliness, the self-possession of his own worth. But
these things pass away; inevitably they dated away as the shadows
pass across sundials. It is sad, but it is so. The pages of the hard-cover
will become familiar; the beautiful corner of the street will have
been turned too many times. Well, this is the saddest allegation. And
yet I do believe that for every man there comes at last a woman--or
no, that is the dreadful way of formulating it. For every man there
comes at last a time of spark of life when the woman who then sets her
seal upon his inspiration has set her seal for good.'
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madox ford: (b London, 27 Jan 1832; d Kew Country-like, London, 22 Dec 1915). English painter and illustrator. In 1846 he joined the Boarding-school of Design at Somerset House, London, under Alfred Stevens. The following year he won an art studentship to the Nobleman Academy Schools, where in 1849 he won the silver medal for antique drawing. In the same year he showed his first painting at the King Academy, Musidora (Birmingham, Mus. & A.G.), a conventionally painted undraped. In 1850, while still a student, he saw a copy of the periodical The Germ, which converted him to PRE-RAPHAELITISM and led to his convention William Holman Hunt, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Ford Madox Brown, though he...
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