Hector Flashcards
Hector as a character- ‘(Hector is…’
‘a man of studied eccentricity)’
Hector and education- ‘A-levels, those…’
‘longed-for emblems of your conformity’
Hector and education ‘I would call…’
‘these lessons A Waste Of Time’
Hector and education- ‘So I’ll thank you…’
‘(hitting him) if nobody mentions Oxford (hit) or Cambridge (hit) in my lessons’
Hector as a character- ‘(He covers…’
‘his ears)’
Hector and education- ‘You [Mrs Lintott] give them…’
‘an education. I give them the wherewithal to resist it’
Hector and education/ art and literature- ‘Learn it now…’
‘know it now and you’ll understand it whenever… We’re making our deathbeds here, boys’
Hector and education- ‘I count examinations…’
‘even for Oxford and Cambridge, as the enemy of education. Which is not to say that I don’t regard education as the enemy of education too’
Hector and sexuality- Lintott: ‘His somewhat…’
‘unexpected wife’
Hector and art and literature- ‘That is where…’
‘they [quotes] belong [the heart] and like the other components of the heart not to be defiled by being trotted out to order’
Hector and education- ‘Ah…’
‘Pornography.’ [about going through exams and mark schemes]
Hector and art and literature/ sexuality- ‘Un-kissed…’
‘Un-rejoicing. Un-confessed. Un-embraced… Un-spent. Un-fingermarked… a sense of not sharing, of being out of it’
Hector and art and literature- ‘The best moments in reading…’
‘are when you come across something… which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else… And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours’
Hector and sexuality- ‘(He puts out his hand…’
‘and it seems for a moment as if Posner will take it, or even that Hector may put it on Posner’s knee. But the moment passes)’
Hector and sexuality/ art and literature- ‘The words…’
‘of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo’
Hector and truth and lies- ‘I… I have…’
‘something I have to… tell you’
Hector and education- ‘SHUT UP, you…’
’ mindless fools. What made me piss my life away in the god-forsaken place?’
Hector and truth and lies- ‘Pay up…’
‘pay up, and play the game’
Hector and truth and lies- ‘May I make…’
‘a suggestion? Why can they not all tell the truth?’
Hector and education- ‘Magnificently…’
‘unprepared for the long littleness of life’
Hector and education- ‘Pass the parcel…’
‘That’s sometimes all you can do. Take it, feel it, and pass it on. Not for me, not for you, but for someone, somewhere, one day. Pass it on, boys -that’s the game I want you to learn. Pass it on’
