The Collector

By DaRabbit, Student

Quotations for the study of John Fowle's

An essay hosted at LiteratureClassics.com

“I’ve always admired a good bit of setting”

“it was a bit frightening”

“strange dead air about everything”

“hideous tangerine”

“stephano and trinculo are the football pools. Their wine, the money he won.”

“the pity Shakespeare feels for his caliban, I feel (beneath the hate and disgust) for mine”

“there was always the idea she would understand”

“what im trying to say is that having her as my guest happened suddenly”

“what you do blurs over what you did before”

“…it would ust be for the interest of the thing, and to compare them and…”

“I think people like mabel should be put out painlessly”

“aunt annie is a non-conformist… but I was brought up in the atmosphere”

“I was never once punished at school”

there is a simplicity in his language, a childish quality to his descriptions and an objectivity which is chilling given the subjective nature of the material.

“he’s inferior to me in every way”

“you’re breaking every decent human law, every decent human relationship, every decent thing that’s ever happened between your sex and mine”

“I have hope. I don’t know why but I do”

“and I felt for them, poor dead butterflies, my fellow-victims”

“poor caliban, always stumbling after miranda” (Tempest)

“do you know that every great thing in the history of art and every beautiful thing in life is what you call nasty or has been casued by feelings you would call nasty? By passion, by love, by hatred, by truth”

“why do you take all the life out of life? Why do you kill all the beauty?”

“the next thing I knew was I got this terrible blow on the side of the head”

“this time it wont be love…” (second victim)

“power corrupts… and money is power” – he says it himself

“that air was wonderful… its free… its everything I’m not”

“if more people were like me in my opinion the world would be better”

“used to go in and out a lot, often with young men, which of course I didn’t like”

“she was not some girl you don’t respect so you don’t care what you do, you respected her and you had to be very careful”

“forces [her] to be changeable, to act”

she conceptualizes her experience in cultural and philosophical terms, drawing attention to the linguistic and cultural impoverishment obvious in the simple telling favoured by Fred, the many