Morality

Question 1

Poor Things, Alasdair Gray, 1992

Answer 1

“Baxter, you boasted in the heat of a quarrel that you were devising a secret method of getting a woman all to yourself, and now I know what your secret is - abduction”

Question 2

Barthes, From Work to Text, 1964

Answer 2

“the Text is experienced only in activity, in a production. It follows that the text cannot stop (for example, at a library shelf); its constitutive moment is traversal”

Question 3

The Pillowman, Martin McDonagh, 2003

Answer 3

“I don’t remember telling you to take a bunch of little kids and go butcher them”

Question 4

T.S. Eliot, 1919, Tradition and the Individual Talent

Answer 4

“Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality”

Question 5

Poor Things 2

Answer 5

“It would cast a shadow upon her life to know she is a surgical fabrication. Only you and i know the truth, and I doubt if you believe it”

Question 6

Pillowman 2

Answer 6

“I know you didn’t want to kill your brother, and I know you killed your parents for all the right reasons, and I’m sorry for you, I’m really sorry for you, and I’ve never said that to anybody in custody before. But at the end of the day, I never liked your stories in the first fucking place.”