Did you ever hear the story about the fighter that was losing badly to the other guy? He's getting the hell kicked out of him and ...he comes back to his corner between rounds and his manager says, "Keep up the good work, kid, because the other guy isn't laying a glove on you." And the fighter says, "Then you'd better keep your eye on the referee because somebody is kicking the shit out of me."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When he became all eye when one was present, and all memory when one was gone; when the youth becomes the watcher of windows, and ...studious of a glove, a veil, a ribbon, or the wheels of a carriage, when no place is too solitary, and none too silent.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Delusions that shrink to the size of a woman's glove, Then sicken inclusively outwards:... . . . the incessant recital Intoned by reality, larded with technical terms, Each one double-yolked with meaning and meaning's rebuttal: For the skirl of that bulletin unpicks the world like a knot....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You had been travelling for days With an old lady, who marked... A neat circle on the glass With her glove, to watch us Move into the wet darkness Kissing, still unable to speak.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"If I hit him, he'll hit me too," Anton Petrovich thought in a flash. He pulled off the glove with a final yank and threw it awkwa...rdly at Berg. The glove slapped against the wall and dropped into the washstand pitcher. "Good shot," said Berg.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When two terms belong to the same category, it is proper to construct conjunctive propositions embodying them. Thus a purchaser ma...y say that he bought a left-hand glove and a right- hand glove, but not that he bought a left-hand glove, a right- hand glove, and a pair of gloves. 'She came home in a flood of tears and a sedan-chair' is a well known joke based on the absurdity of conjoining terms of different types. Now the dogma of the Ghost in the Machine does just this. It maintains that there exist both bodies and minds.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I come to this white office, its sterile sheet, its hard tablet, its stirrups, to hold my breath... while I, who must, allow the glove its oily rape....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise, Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affectation,... Figures pedantical--these summer flies Have blown me full of maggot ostentation. I do forswear them, and I here protest, By this white glove (How white the hand, God knows!), Henceforth my wooing mind shall be expressed In russet yeas and honest kersey noes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Never did I read such tosh. As for the first two chapters we will let them pass, but the 3rd 4th 5th 6th--merely the scratching of... pimples on the body of the bootboy at Claridges.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Arnold Bennett says that the horror of marriage lies in its "dailiness." All acuteness of relationship is rubbed away by this. The... truth is more like this: life--say 4 days out of 7Mbecomes automatic; but on the 5th day a bead of sensation (between husband and wife) forms which is all the fuller and more sensitive because of the automatic customary unconscious days on either side. That is to say the year is marked by moments of great intensity. Hardy's "moments of vision." How can a relationship endure for any length of time except under these conditions?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »