Variant: Curiouser and curiouser!
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
“Experiencing that in general was curiously amazing.”
Vanna Bonta Talks Sex in Space (Interview - Femail magazine)
“Curiously enough I remembered exactly.”
Part One, One
The Dud Avocado (1958)
Context: It was a hot, peaceful, optimistic sort of day in September. It was around eleven in the morning, I remember, and I was drifting down the boulevard St. Michel, thoughts rising in my head like little puffs of smoke, when suddenly a voice bellowed into my ear: "Sally Jay Gorce! What the hell? Well, for Christ’s sake, can this really be our own little Sally Jay Gorce?” I felt a hand ruffling my hair and I swung around, furious at being so rudely awakened.
Who should be standing there in front of me, in what I immediately spotted as the Left Bank uniform of the day, dark wool shirt and a pair of old Army suntans, but my old friend Larry Keevil. He was staring down at me with some alarm.
I said hello to him and added that he had frightened me, to cover any bad-tempered expression that might have been lingering on my face, but he just kept on staring dumbly at me.
"What have you been up to since … since … when the hell was it that I last saw you?” he asked finally.
Curiously enough I remembered exactly.
“Curiously enough, the Sublime is generally achieved through want of proportion.”
25 January 1857 (p. 345)
1831 - 1863, Delacroix' 'Journal' (1847 – 1863)
Source: Learning Strategies, Teaching Strategies, and Conceptual or Learning Style (1988), p. 85. as cited in: Colin A. Hardy, Michael Mawer (1999) Learning and Teaching in Physical Education. p. 62.
“No matter how much you plan for it, the real thing seems curiously, well, unreal.”
Source: Timescape (1980), Chapter 37 (p. 395)
“The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p. 64
The Third Book of Criticism (1969)
“What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.”
Conclusion
The Renaissance http://www.authorama.com/renaissance-1.html (1873)
