Thomas Love Peacock | NIGHTMARE ABBEY “We are most of us like Don Quixote, to whom a windmill was a giant, and Dulcinea a magnificent princess: all more or less the dupes of our own imagination, though we do not all go so far as to see ghosts, or to fancy ourselves pipkins and teapots.” — Thomas Love Peacock | NIGHTMARE ABBEY glamourNatasha JoukovskyApril 27, 2020Thomas Love Peacock, Nightmare Abbey, Don Quixote, imagination, illusion, 2, novelComment
Thomas Love Peacock | HEADLONG HALL “I think you must at least assent to the following positions: that the many are sacrificed to the few; that ninety-nine in a hundred are occupied in a perpetual struggle for the preservation of a perilous and precarious existence, while the remaining one wallows in all the redundancies of luxury that can be wrung from their labours and privations; that luxury and liberty are incompatible; and that every new want you invent for civilised man is a new instrument of torture for him who cannot indulge it.” — Thomas Love Peacock | HEADLONG HALL glamour, innovationNatasha JoukovskySeptember 17, 2017Thomas Love Peacock, Headlong Hall, inequality, luxury, liberty, 2Comment