The Lords of Discipline (1980) (edit title/settings)

Ramon edited the memorable quotes of The Lords of Discipline Thursday, January 6, 2011.

• Added a quotation: “I have eyes that give people what they want, eyes that whore in order to please, commiserate, endorse, affirm. People take from my eyes anything and everything that they need. Usually, I am simply looking at someone as they tell me a story; I am later amazed to discover they have believed I was agreeing with them completely. I have the eyes of a ward politician or a priest on the make with choirboys. I have eyes I have learned to distrust completely.”Will McLean

Shelfari edited the memorable quotes of The Lords of Discipline Friday, April 23, 2010.

• Added a quotation: “I wear the ring and I return often to the city of Charleston, South Carolina, to study the history of my becoming a man. My approach to Charleston is always silent and distracted, but I come under full sail, with hissing silk and memories a-wing above me in the shapes of the birds I love best: old brown pelicans, great blue herons, cowbirds, falcons lost at sea, ospreys lean from dives, and eagles over schools of mullet. I am a low-country boy. My entrance to this marsh-hunted city is always filled with troubled meditations on both my education and my solitude during a four-year residence at The Institute.”Will McLean
• Added a quotation: “The city of Charleston, in the green feathery modesty of its palms, in the certitude of its style, in the economy and stringency of its lines, and the serenity of its mansions South of Broad Street, is a feast for the human eye. But to me, Charleston is a dark city, a melancholy city, whose severe covenants and secrets are as powerful and beguiling as its elegance, whose demons dance their alley dances and compose their malign hymns to the side of the moon I cannot see. I studied those demons closely once, and they helped kill off the boy in me.”Will McLean
• Added a quotation: “Though I will always be a visitor to Charleston, I will always remain one with a passionate belief that it is the most beautiful city in America and that to walk the old section of the city at night is to step into the bloodstream of a history extravagantly lived by a people born to a fierce and unshakable advocacy of their past. To walk in the spire-proud shade of Church Street is to experience the chronicle of a mythology that is particular to this city and this city alone, a Trinitarian mythology with equal parts of the sublime, the mysterious, and the grotesque. But there is nothing to warn you of Charleston’s refined cruelty. That knowledge must be earned. No gargoyles hang from the sides of St. Philip’s or St. Michael’s. No messages are in the iron scrollwork of its gates to warn visitor like Poe, Osceola, me, and you.”Will McLean

Sally W edited the memorable quotes of The Lords of Discipline Saturday, August 8, 2009.

• Added a quotation: “Sally. Why did she have to have a name like Sally? I thought. Why did she have to be granted so sweet and quileless a name? The Sallys of the world were gentle and innocent and shy; the Sallys I had known id not even suspect the existence of such a sleazy demimondes as this one beneath a tent in North Charleston.”Will McLean