The Human Age: Book 1: Childermass by Wyndham Lewis

Author:Wyndham Lewis
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Tags: Fantasy, Novel, Classic, Fiction
Publisher: Methuen
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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me to-morrow if I remember. Then again, the Council of Trent is all very well in its way; but we have our Councils too, it is well to remember!’

ANOTHER APPELLANT. ‘But is it not in any case a degrading doctrine to require that gross physical explanation of a supra-sensible mystery?’

BAILIFF. ‘Of the first order! I’m absolutely with you! Gross isn’t the word!’

APPELLANT. ‘Ctf the first order — er — of the first order — quite. Then local considerations, too, are introduced, whereas ’

BAILIFF. ‘Whereas the thing is supra-local? Yes? Hou T agree with you!’

APPELLANT, ‘Sucli a difficult theory of substance ’

BAILIFF. ‘Difficult ill conveys !’

APPELLANT. ‘It suggests unwortliy questions !’

BMLIFF. ‘Ah, my dear sir, how right you are!’

(There is a slight confusion and clamour as a fresh figure seeks to place himself advantageously to bellwether.)

FRESH* INTERRUPTER. ‘If ye have well received, ye are what ye have received!’

BAILIFF. ‘Don’t yell at me! What are you?’

INTERRUPTER. ‘Ah!’

(The bellwetherer retires, having shot his bolt.)

ANOTHER APPELLANT. ‘My lord may I ask you ?

Milord!’

BAILIFF. ‘Yes my little chicken?’

(He lends a fleshy accommodating ear to the voice of the little chicken.)

APPELLANT. ‘What becomes of the Eucharist if an ani-mal runs off with it and eats it?’

BAILIFF. ‘The same that would happen to you if an animbl ran off with you!’

(Laughter. A Ladies’-Tiddler-One-Penny is stealthily connected with the neck of the last speaker: he

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