ENGL 2210-008 Final Exam Passage Identification

"He felt sorry for her and decided to take her side if she did not finish her work. Sinhá Rita would be sure to forgive her . . . Besides, she had been laughing at him, so it was his fault, if being funny can be a fault"

Machado de Assis, The Cane

“Damiao noticed too, that she keeps coughing, quietly, as if not wanting to disturb their conversation. He felt sorry for her and decided to take her side if she did not finish her work. Sinha Rita would sure forgive her…"

— Machado de Assis, The Cane

“He felt sorry for her and decided to take her side if she did not finish her work. Sinhá Rita would be sure to forgive her…Besides, she had been laughing at him, so it was his fault, if being funny can be a fault. Sinhá Rita, face aflame, eyes bulging, was demanding the cane, still not letting go of the girl, who was now convulsed by a coughing fit. Damião was terribly touched by her plight, but . . . he had to get out of that seminary. He went over to the sofa, picked up the cane and handed it to Sinhá Rita.”

Machado de Assis, The Cane

"Oh, cruel moment! A kind of cloud passed before his eyes. Had he not sworn to help the young girl, who had, after all, only got behind with her work because of him?”

Machado de Assis, The Cane

"‘He who wears another’s clothes will never get anywhere in life. . . I never did expect to be successful. I’ll wear anybody’s clothes—it’s all the same to me."

Ichiyo, Separate Ways

"I’d like to wear a crepe kimono, too, for a change—even if it is tainted.”

Ichiyo, Separate Ways

"I know that's all. Even if someone came along and insisted on helping me, I'd still rather stay where I am. Oiling umbrellas suits me fine. I was born to wear a plain kimono with workman's sleeves"

Ichiyo, Separate Ways

"I never did expect to be successful. I’ll wear anybodys clothes—it’s all the same to me. Remember what you promised once? When your luck changes, you said you’d make me a good kimono. Will you really?”

Ichiyo, Separate Ways

"'For goodness sake,' they'll shout at you, 'It's impossible to protest: its two times two makes four! Nature doesn't ask for your opinion; it doesn't care about your desires or whether you like or dislike its laws. You're obliged to accept it as it is, and consequently, all its conclusions. A wall, you see, is a wall… etc. etc.' Good Lord, what do I care about the laws of nature and arithmetic when for some reason I dislike all these laws and I dislike the fact that two times two makes four?" — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground

“Well, and is it possible, is it really possible for a man to respect himself if he even presumes to find enjoyment in the feeling of his own humiliation?”

Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground

“You believe in the crystal palace, eternally indestructible, that is, one at which you can never stick out your tongue furtively nor make a rude gesture, even with your fist hidden away. Well, perhaps I’m so afraid of this building precisely because it’s made of crystal and it’s eternally indestructible, and because it won;t be possible to stick one’s tongue out even furtively”

Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground

"It’s remarkable that these surges of everything “beautiful and sublime” occurred even during my petty depravity, and precisely when I’d sunk to the lowest depths. They occurred in separate spurts, as if to remind me of themselves; however, they failed to banish my depravity by their appearance. On the contrary, they seemed to add spice to it by means of contrast; they came in just the right amount to serve as a tasty sauce."

Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground

"It's perfectly clear to me now, because of my unlimited vanity and the greatest demands I accordingly made on myself, that I frequently regarded myself with a furious dissatisfaction verging on loathing; as result, I intentionally ascribed my own view to everyone else."

Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground

"Man only needs one thing—his own independent desire, whatever that independence might cost and wherever it may lead."

Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground

"I cannot get her to leave off spinning. She insists on spinning for ever and ever, and I am poor, and cannot get the flax for her"

Grimm Brothers, The Three Spinners

“Now spin me this flax,” said she, “and when you have done it, you shall have my eldest son for a husband, even if you are poor. I care not for that; you are a hard-working girl, and that is enough.”

Grimm Brothers, The Three Spinners

“Do not forget what you have promised us, it will make your fortune.”

Grimm Brothers, The Three Spinners

"'Neither now nor ever shall my beautiful bride touch a spinning wheel.' And thus she got rid of the hateful flax-spinning."

Grimm Brothers, The Three Spinners

“Stars o’ mine!” said the king, “I never heard tell of any one that could do that.” Then he said: “Look you here, I want a wife, and I’ll marry your daughter. But look you here,” says he, “eleven months out of the year she shall have all she likes to eat, and all the gowns she likes to get, and all the company she likes to keep; but the last month of the year she’ll have to spin five skeins every day, and if she don’t I shall kill her.”

Joseph Jacobs, Tom Tite Tot

"Well, she was that frightened, she’d always been such a gatless girl, that she didn’t so much as know how to spin, and what was she to do to-morrow with no one to come nigh her to help her? She sat down on a stool in the kitchen, and law! how she did cry!"

— Tom Tite Tot

“That looked out of the corner of that's eyes, and that said:'I'll give you three guesses every night to guess my name, and if you haven't guessed it before the month's up you shall be mine.' Well, she thought, she'd be sure to guess that's name before the month was up. 'All right,' says she, 'I agree.'”

Tom Tite Tot

"…but the last month of the year she’ll have to spin five skeins every day, and if she don’t I shall kill her."

Tom Tite Tot