Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock

Author:Thomas Love Peacock
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Tags: Humorous stories, Gothic fiction (Literary genre)
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
Published: 2017-12-20T21:11:54+00:00

Mr. Flosky

The τουτεστι, the id est, the cioè, the c’est à dire, the that is, my dear Miss O’Car­roll, is not ap­plic­able in this case—if you will per­mit me to take the liberty of say­ing so. Think is not syn­onym­ous with be­lieve—for be­lief, in many most im­port­ant par­tic­u­lars, res­ults from the total ab­sence, the ab­so­lute neg­a­tion of thought, and is thereby the sane and or­tho­dox con­di­tion of mind; and thought and be­lief are both es­sen­tially dif­fer­ent from fancy, and fancy, again, is dis­tinct from ima­gin­a­tion. This dis­tinc­tion between fancy and ima­gin­a­tion is one of the most ab­struse and im­port­ant points of meta­phys­ics. I have writ­ten seven hun­dred pages of prom­ise to elu­cid­ate it, which prom­ise I shall keep as faith­fully as the bank will its prom­ise to pay.

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