"Souterrain" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... almost sensual pleasure from being abominably treated. They positively lick the dust before their persecutors. They run to "kiss the rod." It is this type of person who, like the hero in that story in "L'Esprit Souterrain," deliberately rushes into embarrassing situations; into situations and among people where he will look a fool—in order to avenge himself upon the spectators of his "folly" by going deeper and ...
— Visions and Revisions - A Book of Literary Devotions • John Cowper Powys |
