One story recounts that a Tennessean, after a single day in the then almost impenetrable tangle of cypress, briars, and canebreaks..., pestered by myriads of mosquitoes, and bogged in the heavy gumbo mud, declared: "Arkansas is not part of the world for which Jesus Christ died--I want none of it."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is important to note that multiculturalism does not share the postmodernist stance. Its passions are political; its assumptions... empirical; its conception of identities visceral. For it, there is no doubting that history is something that happened and that those happenings have left their mark within our collective consciousness. History for multiculturalists is not a succession of dissolving texts, but a tense tangle of past actions that have reshaped the landscape, distributed the nation's wealth, established boundaries, engendered prejudices, and unleashed energies.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So this tangle of impossible resolutions and irresolutions: The desire to have fun, to make noise, and so to... Add to the already all-but-illegible scrub forest of graffiti on the shithouse wall. Someone is coming to get you: The mailman, or a butler enters with a letter on a tray Whose message is to change everything, but in the meantime ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When one has come to accept a certain course as duty he has a pleasant sense of relief and of lifted responsibility, even if the c...ourse involves pain and renunciation. It is like obedience to some external authority; any clear way, though it lead to death, is mentally preferable to the tangle of uncertainty.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The point of the dragonfly's terrible lip, the giant water bug, birdsong, or the beautiful dazzle and flash of sunlighted minnows,... is not that it all fits together like clockwork--for it doesn't ... but that it all flows so freely wild, like the creek, that it all surges in such a free, finged tangle. Freedom is the world's water and weather, the world's nourishment freely given, its soil and sap: and the creator loves pizzazz.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal... with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"The god has not yet answered to our pity For the black vision and tangle in her brains,... Nor is there knowing soever in the city Of the red histories that throbbed in her blue veins."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Don't think of yourself as an intestinal tract and tangle of nerves in the skull, that will not work unless you drink coffee. Thin...k of yourself as incandescent power, illuminated perhaps and forever talked to by God and his messengers.... Think if Tiffany's made a mosquito, how wonderful we would think it was!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »