"...So much concerning the several classes of idols and their equipage. All must be removed and put away with a fixed and solemn determination and the understanding thoroughly freed and cleansed. The entry into the Kingdom of man , founded on the sciences, is not very different from the entry into the Kingdom of Heaven, where into none may come except as a little child." --Francis Bacon, The Novum Organum, 1620

"If I live to be a thousand," says O'Toole, "I want nothing like Cambodia again. It was a bloody nightmare. I really hated it there. How much so you can judge by the fact that after six months in the Orient I hadn't picked up a single work there, whereas after nine months in the desert on Lawrence I was speaking Arabic pretty well."

“But do you notice how, three hundred miles beyond the end of the telegraph cables and mailboat lines, the haggard utilitarian lies of our civilization wither and die, to be replaced by pure exercises of imagination, that have the futility, often the charm, and sometimes the deep hidden truthfulness of works of art?” – Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim.

Up Down Strange a novel about a film about a novel

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