Source: The Metamorphosis
“Slaving gave rise to a division of labor”
Source: Europe and the People Without History, 1982, Chapter 7, The Slave Trade, p. 229.
Context: Slaving gave rise to a division of labor in which the business of capture, maintenance, and overland transport of slaves was in African hands, while Europeans took charge of transoceanic transport, the "seasoning" or breaking in of slaves, and their eventual distribution.
On the adjective ‘Felliniesque’, in The Los Angeles Times (April 2003)]
“But the adjectives change,” said Jimmy. “Nothing’s worse than last year’s adjectives.”
Source: Oryx and Crake
“A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.”
“What was it, then, about the development of capitalism that gave rise to modern racial ideology?”
Source: Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002), Chapter 4, The Colour Of Money, p. 112
“The Doctrine of Fascism” (1935 version), Firenze: Vallecchi Editore, p. 15
1930s
“The adjective is the enemy of the substantive.”
Attributed
“Mine be some figured flame which blends, transcends them all!”
Source: Dramatis Personae (1864), Rabbi Ben Ezra, Line 12.
Context: Mine be some figured flame which blends, transcends them all!
Not for such hopes and fears
Annulling youth's brief years,
Do I remonstrate: folly wide the mark!
Rather I prize the doubt
Low kinds exist without,
Finished and finite clods, untroubled by a spark.
Poor vaunt of life indeed,
Were man but formed to feed
On joy, to solely seek and find and feast;
Such feasting ended, then
As sure an end to men.
The Bohemian Review, Volume 1, p.5
Address of Bohemian Authors to the Parliamentary Representatives of the Bohemian People (Manifesto of Czech writers)
Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book II, Chapter I, Sec. 2
