Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.
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It is all a question of sensitiveness. Brute force and overbearing may make a terrific effect. But in the end, that which lives by delicate sensitiveness. If it were a question of brute force, not a single human baby would survive for a fortnight. It is the grass of the field, most frail of all things, that supports all life all the time. But for the green grass, no empire would rise, no man would eat bread: for grain is grass; and Hercules or Napoleon or Henry Ford would alike be denied existence.
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All tapes left in a car for more than about a fortnight metamorphose into 'Best of Queen' albums.
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I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because the writer is soothed by the opiate of action, the crank by posing as a good journalist, and having an air hole. I dislike it. I do it and I am always resolving to give it up.
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Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead, Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep sea swell...
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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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