"But I don't hold with the idea that to understand all is to forgive all; you follow that and the first thing you know you're sentimental over murderers and rapists and kidnappers and forgetting their victims. That's wrong. I'll weep over rich kids, not over space aliens who are hungry too. If there were some way to drown criminals at birth, I'd take my turn as executioner. Let space aliens drink them from a tin like Campbell soup."
xxx/ellauri127.html on line 51: Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest is an approximately 3,800-acre tract of publicly owned virgin forest in Graham County, North Carolina, named in memory of poet Joyce Kilmer (1886–1918), best known for his poem "Trees". Kilmer is most remembered for "Trees", which has been the subject of frequent parodies and references in popular culture. Kilmer's work is often disparaged by critics and dismissed by scholars as being too simple and overly sentimental, and that his style was far too traditional and even archaic.
xxx/ellauri127.html on line 60: However, Kilmer's eldest son, Kenton, declares that the poem does not apply to any one tree—that it could apply equally to any. "Trees" was written in an upstairs bedroom at the family's home in Mahwah, New Jersey, that "looked out down a hill, on our well-wooded lawn". Kenton Kilmer stated that while his father was "widely known for his affection for trees, his affection was certainly not sentimental—the most distinguished feature of Kilmer's property was a colossal woodpile outside his home". The house stood in the middle of a forest and what lawn it possessed was obtained only after Kilmer had spent months of weekend toil in chopping down trees, pulling up stumps, and splitting logs. Kilmer's neighbors had difficulty in believing that a man who could do that could also be a poet.
xxx/ellauri128.html on line 168: Jean Paulilla on aina ollut ihailijansa ja hän kuuluu saksalaisen kirjallisuuden tärkeimpiin nimiin. Hän oli monille romantiikan ajan kirjailijoille tärkeä esikuva. Lisäksi hänen kirjoillaan oli suuri merkitys eräille romanttisille säveltäjille, esimerkiksi Robert Schumannille ja Johannes Brahmsille. Jostain syystä siihen liitetään adjektiivit "humorous" ja "sentimental". Oliko se siis jonkinlainen huromisti?
xxx/ellauri128.html on line 182: Madame de Staël (/stal/) ou bien Anne-Louise-Germaine Necker, baronne de Staël-Holstein, était une romancière, épistolière et philosophe genevoise et française née le 22 avril 1766 à Paris où elle est morte le 14 juillet 1817. Issue d´une famille de protestants valdo-genevois richissimes, fille du ministre des finances de Louis XVI Jacques Necker, elle est élevée dans un milieu de gens de lettres. Elle épouse, en 1786, le baron Erik Magnus Staël von Holstein, ambassadeur du roi Gustave III de Suède auprès de la cour de France à Versailles. Le couple se séparera en 1800. Devenue baronne de Staël, elle mène une vie sentimentale agitée et entretient en particulier une relation orageuse avec Benjamin Constant, écrivain et homme politique franco-vaudois rencontré en 1794. Entretemps, sa réputation littéraire et intellectuelle s´est affirmée grâce à trois essais philosophiques que sont les Lettres sur les ouvrages et le caractère de Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1788), De l´influence des passions sur le bonheur de l´individu et des nations (1796) et De la littérature considérée dans ses rapports avec les institutions sociales (1800). Favorable à la Révolution française et aux idéaux de 1789 au debut, elle adopte une position critique dès 1791 et ses idées d´une monarchie constitutionnelle la font considérer comme une opposante gênante par les maîtres de la révolution. Malgré le statut de diplomate de son mari, elle doit se réfugier auprès de son père en Suisse à plusieurs reprises. Interdite de séjour sur le sol français par Napoléon Bonaparte qui la considère comme un obstacle à sa politique, elle s´installe en Suisse dans le château familial de Coppet qui sert de lieu principal de rencontres au groupe du même nom, et d´où elle fait paraître Delphine (1802), Corinne ou l´Italie (1807) et De l´Allemagne (1810/1813b). Ses œuvres fictionnelles majeures, dans lesquelles elle représente des femmes victimes des contraintes sociales qui les enchaînent, sont Delphine (1802) et Corinne ou l´Italie (1807).
xxx/ellauri179.html on line 286: To read Hemingway has always produced strong reactions. When his parents received the first copies of their son’s book In Our Time (1924), they read it with horror. Furious, his father sent the volumes back to the publisher, as he could not tolerate such filth in the house. Hemingway’s apparently coarse, crude, vulgar and unsentimental style and manners appeared equally shocking to many people outside his family. On the other hand, this style was precisely the reason why a great many other people liked his work. A myth, exaggerating those features, was to be born.
xxx/ellauri179.html on line 296: In Hemingway, sentimentality, sympathy, and empathy are turned inwards, toward himself. Neither Hemingway the man nor Hemingway the writer should be labeled “hard-boiled” - his macho style of living and speaking and the alleged hard-boiled mind behind it are better labeled "addled".
xxx/ellauri298.html on line 63: Vittuako pikkuhattu Patti jaxaa vatkuttaa Oidipus-komplexista. Se oli tuskin ize turvonneenakaan tulitikkulaatikkoa pitempi. Pettymyxenmakuinen lerpahdus. Patti vaikuttaa ikävältä ihmiseltä, sen "herkkyys hyvälle" on mätää sentimentalismia. Isätön, naisten kasvattama mammanpoika. Jotain pederastista on sen suhteessa "setäläiseen" ja "Jymyä" polttelevaan Ville Timoseen, jonka sarkahousut haisi hyvältä. Kolmantena hyväkkäänä "kronikkarunoilija Kalle Kettunen", jota Patti puski päällä mahan alle. Osuuskaupan myyjää pyysi tiskin alta hamuilemaan "pannaania." Ota kiinni mandariini, osuuskaupan tissiliivi.
xxx/ellauri312.html on line 914: Aika samanlainen on tässä idis Hölderlinillä kuin Rortylla: kaikki tää turinointi jumalista on fiktio, se on vain keino hoitaa asioita jotka oikeasti tekee apinoista onnellisia, nimittäin lain kirjain sekä kiinteä ja irtain omaisuus. Plus pano tietysti, mutta siitä ei tällä kertaa puhuta. Oliko Hölderlin muuten homo vaiko ainoastaan hullu kuin pullosta tullut? Riki Sorsa haluaa panna kovat tieteet lunastuxeen, siitä tässä on viime kädessä kymysys. Vizi mikä vetelys. "Finding new, newer, more interesting, more fruitful ways of speaking", kuten sentimentalismi, paskanjauhanta ja vaihtoehtoiset totuudet. Ei siltä että niissä mitään uutta olisi, onhan samaa sontaa hangottu jo maailman sivu.
xxx/ellauri356.html on line 328: Yksi Ranskan arvostetuimmista nykyrunoilijoista vihasi äitiään. "Minulla oli todella ilkeä äiti", Eugene Guillevic sanoi. Varmasti yksikään runoilija ei voisi toivoa parempaa johdatusta kurilliseen runolliseen tyyliin ilman sentimentalismia.
xxx/ellauri400.html on line 225: For all his championing of disinterestedness, Arnold was unable to practise disinterestedness in all his essays. In his essay on Shelley particularly he displayed a lamentable lack of disinterestedness. Shelley's moral views were too much for the Victorian Arnold. In his essay on Keats too Arnold failed to be disinterested. The sentimental letters of Keats to Fanny Brawne were too much for him.
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