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“and, sometimes,
from a lifetime ago
and another country
such a willing and lilting companion—
a song
made so obviously for me.
At what unknowable cost.
And by a stranger.”
― House of Light
from a lifetime ago
and another country
such a willing and lilting companion—
a song
made so obviously for me.
At what unknowable cost.
And by a stranger.”
― House of Light
“Come to Elfland,' the troll said.
The child thought for a while. Other children had gone, and the elves always sent a changeling in their place, so that nobody quite missed them and nobody really knew. She thought awhile of the wonder and wildness of Elfland, and then of her own home.
'N-no,' said the child.
'Why not?' said the troll.
'Mother made a jam roll this morning,' said the child. And she walked on gravely home.”
― The King of Elfland's Daughter
The child thought for a while. Other children had gone, and the elves always sent a changeling in their place, so that nobody quite missed them and nobody really knew. She thought awhile of the wonder and wildness of Elfland, and then of her own home.
'N-no,' said the child.
'Why not?' said the troll.
'Mother made a jam roll this morning,' said the child. And she walked on gravely home.”
― The King of Elfland's Daughter
“Listen," Hilarius said after awhile, "have I seemed to you a good enough Freudian? Have I ever deviated seriously?"
"You made faces now and then," said Oedipa, "but that’s minor.”
― The Crying of Lot 49
"You made faces now and then," said Oedipa, "but that’s minor.”
― The Crying of Lot 49
“I am driven to literary examples because you, the reader, and I do not live in the same neighbourhood; if we did, there would unfortunately be no difficulty about replacing them with examples from real life.”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
“We Communists do not like the expression, “labor dispute”. It suggests a disagreement among people on an equal basis. It suggests a friendly bickering of parties to an agreement who happen to disagree on a certain point. It suggests an amicable and perfectly lovely settlement of mutual grievances. What a false and misleading notion! There are no labor disputes. There is the wish of the capitalist to press some more sweat and blood out of the workers, and there is the wish of the workers to fight their enemy, who feeds on them.”
― Why Communism?: Plain Talks on Vital Problems
― Why Communism?: Plain Talks on Vital Problems
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