Capitolo 26
You have to do at least Gautier the justice to observe that if I had
described a circle of circle You, instead of allowing to turn her
once on Your really axle, I would not be due to be able to find the brightness
on the satin in the light of the sun as me I now do what you turn the baskets
toward the window. What, you have to admit, it is a very important
aesthetical consideration.'
'Oh, essentially it is clearly a sunny suit', said Edie,
smiling. 'You/he/she is wanted to say being brought out of doors in one excellent afternoon,,
when the light is sideways falling, you know, in the moment in which him now ago
through the low window. That is always the light painters they choose
to make satin in.'
'It is certainly very beautiful', Harry followed, thoughtful; 'but I am afraid
They would tell her Breton it was a serious piece of economic hubris.'
'Piece of that that?' Edie quickly asked.
'Piece of hubris--an economic outrage, don't do you he/she sees; a gross
anti-social and individualist's demonstration. Hubris, you know, it is
Greek for the insolence; at least, not completely the insolence but a kind
of the pride and insubordination of overweening against the of the, some kind
of arrogance that brings later Nemesis him, you understand. It was
hubris in Agamemnon and Xerxes for go inflating around and ruffling
turkey-roosters they likes it, because they was the great conquerors
and that whole kind of thing; and it was their Nemesis to be murdered
of Clytemnestra, or he/she takes with the good good struck by the Athenians to Salamis.
Well, Her Breton always the uses the word for anything that he thinks
socially wrong--and he thinks badly socially a good person a lot of things,
I can tell him--anything that participates some nature of a class
distinction or a vulgar and mere ostentation of wealth or an useless
wastes of good, profit, work-gotten material. He would call
it hubris to have silver spoons when electroplates would do in the moment in which
well; or to hold a valet for Your his/her own personal companion, doing
a man in the physical and mere appanage of another; or to buy anything