From: David Parker (cdickens@RMPLC.CO.UK)
Date: Tue Feb 16 1999 - 08:46:45 PST
My dear Newsom, David Parker's wrists are smarting, I can promise you. As for his computer . . . . Well, the Inimitable can be the Magnanimous as well, though he notes that the omission of a single word renders the machine imbecilic. And did not the Inimitable's own memory fail him? We are both grovelling in the dust as I write this, and rending each other's garments. Faithfully yours, Charles Dickens ____________________________________________________________________________ _________ -----Original Message----- From: Robert Newsom <rnewsom@BENFRANKLIN.HNET.UCI.EDU> To: BOZ@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU <BOZ@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> Date: 16 February 1999 16:15 Subject: Re: Quote >_Dombey and Son_, ch. 46, "Recognizant and Reflective." Mr. Carker is >closely watching his employer, Mr. Dombey, whom he means to cuckold. >Hardly a Zen sentiment, I should think. > >"Yet these cares did not in the least interfere with Mr. Carker's watching >of his chief, or with his cleanness, neatness, sleekness, or any cat-like >quality he possessed. It was not so much that there was a change in him, >in reference to any of his habits, as that the whole man was intensified. >Everything that had been observable in him before, was observable now, but >with a greater amount of concentration. He did each single thing as if he >did nothing else - a pretty certain indication in a man of that range of >ability and purpose that he is doing something which sharpens and keeps >alive his keenest powers." > >___________________________________________________________________________ __ > Professor Robert Newsom, Department of English and Comparative Literature > University of California, Irvine > Irvine, CA 92697-2650 U S A > Phone:(949) 824-6744 Internet: rnewsom@uci.edu > > >On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Julia Lalor wrote: > >> Hi, >> Can anyone tell me what Dicken's work the quote, "He did each thing as if >> he did nothing else." I found it in a book of Zen sayings and it just >> said Charles Dickens so maybe it was said of him but I think it was >> probably a writing. >> Julia >> >