ENGL-2140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, H. P. Lovecraft
English 8
HP Lovecraft “The Outsider”
“For although nepenthe has calmed me, I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this
century and among those who are still men. This I have known ever since I stretched out my
fingers to the abomination within that great gilded frame; stretched out my fingers and touched a
cold an unyielding surface of polished glass.”
Djuna Barnes
Nightwood
“They took titles merely to dazzle boys about town, to make their public life (and it was all they
had) mysterious and perplexing, knowing well that skill is never so amazing as when it seems
inappropriate. Felix clung to his title to dazzle his own estrangement. It brought them together.”
“Nora robbed herself for everyone; incapable of giving herself warning, she was continually
turning about to find herself diminished. Wandering people the world over found her profitable
in that she could be sold for a price forever, for she carried her betrayal money in her own
pocket.”
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For although nepenthe has calmed me, i know always that i am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men. This i have known ever since i stretched out my fingers to the abomination within that great gilded frame; stretched out my fingers and touched a cold an unyielding surface of polished glass. They took titles merely to dazzle boys about town, to make their public life (and it was all they had) mysterious and perplexing, knowing well that skill is never so amazing as when it seems inappropriate. Felix clung to his title to dazzle his own estrangement. Nora robbed herself for everyone; incapable of giving herself warning, she was continually turning about to find herself diminished. Wandering people the world over found her profitable in that she could be sold for a price forever, for she carried her betrayal money in her own pocket.
