Dr. Upward was one of those Academy Award-winning Asses of Arrogance you find in educational administration, law or medicine.
During those nine pouched-up months, what do babies imagine? Gills, swamps, battlefields? To people in wombs, what is imagined and what is real must be one and the same.
Dust is gold in the light of dawn.
Empires die, like all of us dancers in the strobe-lit dark. See how the light needs shadows. Look: wrinkles spread like mildew over our peachy sheen; beat-by-beat-by-beat-by-beat-by-beat-by-beat, vari...
Essex raised its ugly head. When i was a scholarship boy at the local grammar, son of a city-hall toiler on the make, this country was synonymous with liberty, success, and Cambridge. Now look at it....
Esther runs Unalaq’s ruby thumbnail up the stem of a purple tulip. You miss purple, after a few years …
European music is passionately savage, broken by long silences.
Eva knows I'm terra incognita and explores me unhurriedly, like you did. Because she's lean as a boy. Because her scent is almonds, meadow grass. Because if I smile at her ambition to be an Egyptologi...
Eva. Every day I've climbed up the belfry chanting a lucky chant at one syllable per beat, To-day-to-day-let-her-be-here-to-day-to-day.
Fear hardens caution, but boredom erodes it.
February's so gloomy in this part of the world, said Mrs. de Roo, don't you think? It's not so much a month as a twenty-eight day long Monday morning
Freedom!- is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the barest inkling re: what the stuff actually is.
Go to hell, Willy, our souls eat poetry, but one has seven deadly sins to feed!
Goat tongue is a gift, you got it from the day you're borned or you ain't got it. If you got it, goats'll heed your say-so, if you ain't, they'll jus' trample you muddy an' stand there scornin'.
God only knows how many previous owners it’s had, but it’s been washed so the stains aren’t sticky at least,
Grin and bear it! Remember your heritage! You’re a Japanese law-abiding straight! You grin and bear it until your Zimmer frame buckles and your drinking water is mercury oxide, and our whole country i...
He lights another match to see if it's a time worth getting up for: 4:05. No. An inbetween hour.
Hello, tiny life-form of star compost, did you know that your lizardly life, too, is billiarded this way and that by quantum scissors, papers and stones? That your particles exist in a time-froth of l...
Her professional conscience is a collar. I hold the leash.
I know that don't sound senseful, but yarns 'bout Old-Un Smart an' flyin' dwellin's an' grown' babbits in bottles an' pictures zoomin' cross the Hole World ain't senseful neither but that's how it was...
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