Why should the generations overlap one another at all? Why cannot we be buried as eggs in neat little cells with ten or twenty tho...usand pounds each wrapped round us in Bank of England notes, and wake up, as the Sphinx wasp does, to find that its papa and mamma have not only left ample provision at its elbow but have been eaten by sparrows some weeks before we began to live consciously on our own accounts?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it ...will return to the attack more furious than ever.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am a Wasp only in the genetic sense; the P does not quite apply. As an Episcopalian I am technically an Anglican Catholic, meani...ng that I have a real feel for theological dottiness untainted by deeper questions of religious belief. I have no religious beliefs to speak of, but I stand four-square with the Highs against the Lows on Latin and incense, and I will go to bat for transubstantiation even though it means nothing to me one way or the other.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Why, what a wasp-stung and impatient fool Are thou to break into this woman's mood,... Tying thine ear to no tongue but thine own!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As if her velvet helmet high Did turret rationality.... She fans her wing up to the winde As if her Pettycoate were lin'de With reasons fleece, and hoises saile And humming flies in thankfull gaileLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here of this fustian animall, Till I enravisht climb into... The Godhead on this ladder doe: Where all my pipes inspir'de upraise And Heavenly musick, furr'd with praise.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »