Two On A Tower
A Fiction, European Literature, Classics book. The inspection of these chasms brought him a second pulsation of that old horror which he had used...
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The inspection of these chasms brought him a second pulsation of that old horror which he had used to describe to Viviette as produced in him by bottomlessness in the north heaven. The ghostly finger of limitless vacancy touched him now on the other side. Thomas Hardy, Two on a Tower // At night, when human discords and harmonies are hushed, . . . there is nothing to moderate the blow with which the infinitely great, the stellar universe, strikes down upon the infinitely little, the mind of the beholder . . . Having got closer to immensity than their fellow-creatures, they saw at once its beauty and its frightfulness. They more and more felt the contrast between their own tiny magnitudes and those among which they had recklessly plunged, till they were oppressed with the presence of a vastness they could not cope with even as an idea,... I think astronomy is a bad study for you. It makes you feel human insignificance too plainly. Thomas Hardy, Two on a Tower //
I want to share just a bit of prose from this novel by Thomas Hardy. Its a scene late at night at the height of a violent wind storm and Lady Constantine and Swithin (the protagonists) are atop the old tower trying to perform some astronomical observation:Under any other circumstances Lady Constantine might have felt a nameless fear... Definitely closer to 4 stars than 3. The shock value of an ending was absurd that I actually laughed..."aah classic Hardy!" It is beautifully written and I liked the prevailing theme of how small our lives are in comparison to the scale of the universe which surpasses our knowledge. It took me a little bit longer to get through this book than it normally would... partially because the older style writing took more concentration on my part, and partially because I found the first part of the novel to be really slow. The book was comprised of three parts: the first was an introduction to the characters and the plot,...
