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Sundarnaz Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary
Howards End
"Had you thought it, then? that there are two kinds of people_ our kind, who live straight from the middle of their heads, and the other kind who can't because their heads have no middle? they cant say "I". They aren't in fact, and so they're supermen"
The above lines are taken from chapter 27. I couldn't understand three things in these lines 1st "Middle of heads" 2nd "They can't say "I"" 3rd why there is a question mark after "because their heads have no middle."
Please somebody clear these to me. Thanks
The above lines are taken from chapter 27. I couldn't understand three things in these lines 1st "Middle of heads" 2nd "They can't say "I"" 3rd why there is a question mark after "because their heads have no middle."
Please somebody clear these to me. Thanks
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For questions 1 and 2: this is an existential discussion. As I haven't read the book, I can't say exactly what is meant by these terms, but they seem to imply being true to self. For your 3rd question, there is a question mark because the sentence begins with Had you thought it, then?
- For questions 1 and 2: this is an existential discussion.
- As I haven't read the book, I can't say exactly what is meant by these terms, but they seem to imply being true to self.
- For your 3rd question, there is a question mark because the sentence begins with Had you thought it, then?
- Even though there is already a question mark placed after that phrase, the question continues with that there are two kinds of people...
- This construction isn't used very often, and is usually mostly found in older texts.
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For questions 1 and 2: this is an existential discussion. 
As I haven't read the book, I can't say exactly what is meant by these ter
As I haven't read the book, I can't say exactly what is meant by these ter
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I don't understand it at a glance, either. She is prattling a bit, but you are supposed to think about it. The idea of the Superman came from Nietszche some 15 years before, and it found its way into art galore. Forster has a stab at it here, seeming to offer a refutation of the criticism that the Superman is nothing more than a bog-standard amoral egotist, what we'd call a psychopath today, I gue
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Thanks both of you for your kind replies.
You know what in English novels it is the philosophy of the writer that makes the novel boring for English learners. Particularly when the readers aren't getting the philosophy.
You know what in English novels it is the philosophy of the writer that makes the novel boring for English learners. Particularly when the readers aren't getting the philosophy.
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Helen imagines herself to be a learned philosopher, but she only talks complete nonsense. This seems to be her theory of personalities and class.
Here is the following paragraph:
Leonard roused himself. If his benefactress wanted intellectual conversation, she must have it. She was more important than his ruined past. "I never got on to Nietzsche," he said. "But I always under
Here is the following paragraph:
Leonard roused himself. If his benefactress wanted intellectual conversation, she must have it. She was more important than his ruined past. "I never got on to Nietzsche," he said. "But I always under
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Well, it depends on how you look at it. I always think the philosophy of the writers makes the books more interesting, because it gives you a glance into the writers' minds and times.
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"a glance captures more than a glimpse" -- http://thesaurus.com/browse/glance ;)
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Elanguest"a glance captures more than a glimpse" -- http://thesaurus.com/browse/glance ;)Well, then, you're stuck with the perennial internet dilemma: who you gunna believe?
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