I'd like to share some quotes:
“London was beginning to illuminate herself against the night. Electric lights sizzled and jagged in the main thoroughfares, gas-lamps in the side streets glimmered a canary gold or green…and the clouds down Oxford Street were a delicately painted ceiling…”(114).
“Their house was in Wickham Place, and fairly quiet, for a lofty promontory of buildings separated it from the main thoroughfare. One had the sense of a backwater, or rather of an estuary, whose waters flowed in from the invisible sea, and ebbed into a profound silence while the waves without were still beating”(8).
“Whether you are like Mrs. Munt, and tap surreptitiously when the tune come- of course, not so as to disturb the others, or like Helen, who can see heroes and shipwrecks in the music’s flood…or like their cousin, Fraulein Mosebach, who remembers all the time that Beethoven is “echt Deutsch”, or like Fraulein Mosebach’s young man, who can remember nothing but Fraulein Mosebach…you are bound to admit that such a noise is cheap at two shillings”(30).
“We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet. This story deals with gentlefolk, or with those who are obliged to pretend that they are gentlefolk”(43).
I should very much like to be like E.M. Forster. Do you think changing my last name to match the author's is a plausible route for me to be inspired? I'm very serious, of course.
