Important Quotations Explained
1. What's it going to be then, eh?
2. The attempt to impose upon man,
a creature of growth and capable of sweetness, to ooze juicily at
the last round the bearded lips of God, to attempt to impose, I
say, laws and conditions appropriate to a mechanical creation, against this
I raise my sword-pen.
3. They don't go into the cause
of
goodness, so why of the other shop? . . . Badness
is of the self, the one, the you or me on our oddy knockies, and
that self is made by old Bog or God and is his great pride and radosty.
But the not-self cannot have the bad, meaning they of the government
and the judges and the schools cannot allow the bad because they
cannot allow the self. And is not our modern history, my brothers,
the story of brave malenky selves fighting these big machines?
4. What does God want? Does God
want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses the
bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon
him?
5. And nor would he be able to stop
his own son, brothers. And so it would itty on to like the end of
the world, round and round and round, like some bolshy gigantic
like chelloveck, like old Bog Himself (by courtesy of Korova Milkbar)
turning and turning and turning a vonny grahzny orange in his gigantic
rookers.
