“And just as he had earlier, during their lunch hour, insinuated the problem of innocence to the formalists - which had incensed them and boosted their immaturity a hundredfold - he was now making an issue of my modern legs. And there I was, listening and lapping it all up - his linking the calves of my legs with those of the new generation - and coming to feel the cruelty of youth toward old calves! And there was also a kind of leg camaraderie with the schoolgirl, plus a clandestine, voluptuous collusion of legs, plus leg patriotism, plus the impudence of young legs, plus leg poetry, plus young-blooded pride in the calf of the leg, and a cult of the calf of the leg. Oh, what a fiendish body part!”
Witold Gombrowicz
Ferdydurke
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
Similar quotes
“What is a Bongaloo, Daddy?" A Bongaloo, Son," said I, Is a tall bag of cheese Plus a Chinaman's knees And the leg of a nanny goat's eye”
Spike Milligan
“I feel like having another thigh and calf would give me a leg up on my competition.”
Jarod Kintz
Seriously delirious, but not at all serious
“If I had a wooden leg I could sit on three-legged chairs no problem.”
Jarod Kintz
This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks
“A man can spend several hours sitting cross-legged in the same position if he knows that noting prevents him from changing it; but if he knows that he has to sit with his legs crossed like that, he will get cramps, his legs will twitch and strain towards where he would like to stretch them.”
Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
“I type as fast as a ten-legged man who just had eight legs chopped off runs.”
Jarod Kintz
Who Moved My Choose?: An Amazing Way to Deal With Change by Deciding to Let Indecision Into Your Life