"It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness, to think that a thousand square miles are a thousand times more wonderful than one square mile . . . That is not imagination. No, it kills it. . . . Your universities? Oh, yes, you have learned men who collect . . . facts, and facts, and empires of facts. But which of them will rekindle the light within?" (E.M. Forster, Howard's End, p. 30)
14 November 2012
90. Bigness
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Yup, I can relate to that quote. … Just finished reading A Room with a View. It was pretty good.
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