Other Aspects
There are a number of anecdotes depicting Perry-Smith as a rather unusual character:
- When people doubted his ascent of 'Perryriss', he climbed that route again and wrote in big letters 'Perry' on the rock. (it can still be read today)
- He owned a Bugatti race car and got in trouble with the police several times for driving fast and hazardously.
- He was once arrested for getting drunk and disturbing the peace in the town of Bad Schandau.
In the year 1914 Oliver Perry-Smith returned to the US, never to visit Saxony again.
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Famous quotes containing the word aspects:
“I suppose an entire cabinet of shells would be an expression of the whole human mind; a Flora of the whole globe would be so likewise, or a history of beasts; or a painting of all the aspects of the clouds. Everything is significant.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The power of a text is different when it is read from when it is copied out.... Only the copied text thus commands the soul of him who is occupied with it, whereas the mere reader never discovers the new aspects of his inner self that are opened by the text, that road cut through the interior jungle forever closing behind it: because the reader follows the movement of his mind in the free flight of day-dreaming, whereas the copier submits it to command.”
—Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)