 | Ward L. Miner - Authors, American - 1963 - 200 pages
...human experience which can fit your individual needs no better than it fitted his or his father's. I give it to you not that you may remember time, but...and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his... | |
 | Daniel Joseph Singal - History - 1982 - 476 pages
...implying a tie to his historical tradition. On presenting him the watch, his father had advised him: "1 give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you may forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it." The irony... | |
 | Louis J. Budd, Edwin Harrison Cady - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 312 pages
...human experience which can fit your individual needs no better than it fitted his or his father's. I give it to you not that you may remember time, but...not spend all your breath trying to conquer it” (p. 93). Time and time-consciousness contradict human experience, as the reference to red uctio ad... | |
 | Louis J. Budd, Edwin Harrison Cady - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 312 pages
...human experience which can fit your individual needs no better than it fitted his or his father's. I give it to you not that you may remember time, but...and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it" (p. 93). Time and time-consciousness contradict human experience, as the reference to reduclio ad absurdum... | |
 | Antonia Sánchez Macarro - Comics & Graphic Novels - 1991 - 346 pages
...beginning of the second chapter in the scene where Quentin is listening to the watch his father gave him. I give it to you not that you may remember time, but...and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battleiseverwonhesaid.Theyarenot even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly... | |
 | John Spencer Hill - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 224 pages
...human experience which can fit your individual needs no better than it fitted his or his father's. I give it to you not that you may remember time, but...and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his... | |
 | John Bassett - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 442 pages
...is silence. As the father explains to his son, Quentin, when he has given him Grandfather's watch: ‘I give it to you not that you may remember time,...and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won,' he said. ‘They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man... | |
 | Patricia McKee - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 260 pages
...human experience which can fit your individual needs no better than it fitted his or his father's. I give it to you not that you may remember time, but...and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his... | |
 | R. Rio-Jelliffe - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2001 - 214 pages
...do, but fact to "unreality." Time then becomes his enemy. Father persuades his son to "forget" time "now and then for a moment and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it" (93/76). But an unbearable past overwhelms the young man's present and impels both into the future... | |
 | John P. Anderson - Education - 2002 - 296 pages
...in between are individual needs imprisoned by tradition. The next sentence tells much about Father: I give it to you not that you may remember time, but...and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it. Note that if Father believes what he says, he would not give a watch as a present. Father apparently... | |
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I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it. 
