lundi 24 novembre 2008

FORD : The Good Soldier.



Ford Madox FORD. The Good Soldier.
New York, London : Norton, 1995.


John DOWELL / Florence HURLBIRD
Edward ASHBURNHAM / Leonora POWYS
/ Nancy RUFFORD

« It is a queer and fantastic world. Why can't people have what they want ? The things were all there to content everybody ; yet everybody has the wrong thing. Perhaps you can make head or tail of it ; it is beyond me. »
(151)

« Conventions and traditions I suppose work blindly but surely for the preservation of the normal type ; for the extinction of proud, resolute and unusual individuals. »
(152)

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