Philip

“For Lyotard, metanarratives are a distinctly modern phenomenon: they are stories that not only tell a grand story (since even premodern and tribal stories do this) but also claim to be able to legitimate or prove the story's claim by an appeal to universal reason...It is the supposed rationality of modern scientistic stories about the world that makes them a metanarrative.”
― James K.A. Smith, Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?: Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church

“I have a palate, Williams. A precious possession. And I have no intention of prostituting it to pickles.”
― Josephine Tey, To Love and Be Wise

“Charm. The most insidious weapon in all the human armoury.”
― Josephine Tey, A Shilling for Candles

“When something baffled him he found that if he kept on worrying it, he got no further, and lost his sense of proportion in the process. So when he came to a dead stop he indulged in what he called “shutting his eyes” for a little, and when he “opened” them again he habitually found a new light on things that revealed unexpected angles and made the old problem a totally new proposition. There”
― Josephine Tey, The Man in the Queue