"From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were - I have not seen
As others saw - I could not bring
My passions from a common spring" -- Edgar Allan Poe, 'Alone'.
What a Pompous Ass this fellow must be! But it more or less defines him to a tee: quoting dead men from a desire to stand in their shiny, shiny shoes.
'...an embryo don, a man of solid reading and childlike humour...' -- Evelyn Waugh, 'Brideshead Revisited'
"...but for an occasional conversation... he would scarcely have spoken a dozen words in a week... Solitude fostered a sensitiveness which to begin with was extreme; the lack of stated occupation encouraged his natural tendency to dream and procrastinate and hope for the improbable. He was a recluse in the midst of millions, and viewed with dread the necessity of going forth to fight for daily bread." -- George Gissing, 'New Grub Street'.
"No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;
Am an attendant lord, one that will do
To swell a progress, start a scene or two,
Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool,
Deferential, glad to be of use,
Politic, cautious, and meticulous;
Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse;
At times, indeed, almost ridiculous -
Almost, at times, the Fool." -- T.S. Eliot, 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock'.
"What is a man anyhow? what am I? what are you?" -- Walt Whitman, 'Song of Myself'.
"Indeed, I am nothing but a wanderer and a pilgrim on this earth! And what more are you?" -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 'The Sorrows of Young Werther'.
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