Wordie: Ratiocination: Comments

Comment by yarb, 6 months ago

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:42:56 +0000

"He spent ten years in Thibet organising the clarified butter industry on modern European lines, and was able to retire at thirty-six with a handsome fortune. The rest of his life he devoted to travel and ratiocination; here is the result."

- Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow

Comment by chained_bear, 8 months ago

Sat, 09 Feb 2008 02:06:16 +0000

"He took the Naval Chronicle, and after a little while he burst in upon Stephen's ratiocination with a fine exultant cry, 'By God, Stephen, she did it! Ajax came up with the Méduse off La Hogue and beat her into mummy in thirty-five minutes...'"
--Patrick O'Brian, The Surgeon's Mate, 361

Comment by yarb, 10 months ago

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 03:08:47 +0000

There are numerous un-Japanese things about Wordsworth, I find.

Comment by plumpesDenken, 10 months ago

Sun, 25 Nov 2007 06:31:45 +0000

What is un-Japanese about Wordsworth, however - and you only need to remember a poem like The Prelude or "Tintern Abbey" to realise it - is the nimbus of introspection and ratiocination which surrounds the physical details of the scene. Seamus Heaney in The Guardian.