"Ragtime" [.]

[fiefoe]

<prisca theologia, secret wisdom>

• He heard from a native guide of the wisdom given to the great Osiris that there is a sacred tribe of heroes, a colony from the gods who are regularly born in every age to assist mankind.
• The rise of mechanistic science, of Newton and Descartes, was a great conspiracy, a great devilish conspiracy to destroy our apprehension of reality and our awareness of the transcendentally gifted among us.
• And together [Morgan and Ford] had managed to found the most secret and exclusive club in America, The Pyramid, of which they were the only members.
  

<Tateh, his daughter and the boy>

• What if they just went on this way in varying degrees of unrealized hope?
• She had reserves of character he did not elicit from her.
• Thus did the artist point his life along the lines of flow of American energy.
• The value of a duplicable event was everywhere perceived.
• They were extremely sensitive to each other, silhouetted in a diffuse excitement, like electricity or a nimbus of light, but their touching was casual and matter-of-fact. What bound them to each other was a fulfilled recognition which they lived and thought within.
  

__ Their cause had recomposed their minds. They would kick at the world's supports.
__ Your generosity was what you felt you could afford.
__ He felt stupid and plodding, available simply to have done to him what circumstances would do.
__ the prim renunciatory mouth of someone who had eaten fish with bones in it
__ the swollen and laughable face of grief

Theda Bara

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