"But when a man suspects any wrong, it sometimes happens that if he be already involved in the matter, he insensibly strives to cover up his suspicions even from himself." This is so very true
I was struck by the Elijah character. Whether you have Caesar being warned about the Ides of March or the werewolf classic of an old man saying "don't travel the moors at night" the trope of the supernatural prophet is alive and well.
Per my edition's footnotes: "1 Kings recounts the prophet Elijah's conflicts with King Ahab and his wife Jezebel, a worshiper of Baal. When Jezebel has Naboth killed in order to obtain his vineyard for Ahab to use as an herb garden, Elijah prophesies to Ahab [something predictably and Biblically gross]."
"But when a man suspects any wrong, it sometimes happens that if he be already involved in the matter, he insensibly strives to cover up his suspicions even from himself." This is so very true
Very true. Thanks for sharing another beauty of a line from this book.
I was struck by the Elijah character. Whether you have Caesar being warned about the Ides of March or the werewolf classic of an old man saying "don't travel the moors at night" the trope of the supernatural prophet is alive and well.
"Morning to ye, shipmates, morning!"
Per my edition's footnotes: "1 Kings recounts the prophet Elijah's conflicts with King Ahab and his wife Jezebel, a worshiper of Baal. When Jezebel has Naboth killed in order to obtain his vineyard for Ahab to use as an herb garden, Elijah prophesies to Ahab [something predictably and Biblically gross]."