The traditional novel form continues to enlarge our experience in those very areas where the wide-angle lens and the Cinerama scre...en tend to narrow it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Derk was the night as pich or as the cole, And at the windowe out she putte hir hole,... And Absolon, him fil no bet ne wers, But with his mouth he kiste hir naked ers,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the motion-picture theater, the screen at rest is a neutral, shadowy blank; at rest, the fish-eye lens of the TV screen mirrors... the room over which it presides. In both, the images are luminous, lighted as though from within, but the motion-picture images hover on or just in front of the surface of the screen. The viewer moves toward inclusion; no need for those movie-palace stunts, those three-dimensional experiments when, bicolored glasses in place, we ducked the baseball flung at us or were frozen in our seats by the locomotive that roared out of the screen and over our heads. The TV image, by contrast, recedes into its box and includes us out.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... if, as women, we accept a philosophy of history that asserts that women are by definition assimilated into the male universal,... that we can understand our past through a male lens--if we are unaware that women even have a history--we live our lives similarly unanchored, drifting in response to a veering wind of myth and bias.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
While we were thus engaged in the twilight, we heard faintly, from far down the stream, what sounded like two strokes of a woodcho...pper's axe, echoing dully through the grim solitude.... When we told Joe of this, he exclaimed, "By George, I'll bet that was a moose! They make a noise like that." These sounds affected us strangely, and by their very resemblance to a familiar one, where they probably had so different an origin, enhanced the impression of solitude and wildness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Carlyle is not a seer, but a brave looker-on and reviewer; not the most free and catholic observer of men and events, for they are... likely to find him preoccupied, but unexpectedly free and catholic when they fall within the focus of his lens.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I see that every man that went in had his pockets bulging, or something muffled up under his coat--and I see it warn't no perfumer...y either, not by a long sight. I smelt sickly eggs by the barrel, and rotten cabbages, and such things; and if I know the signs of a dead cat being around, and I bet I do, there was sixty-four of them went in. I shoved in there for a minute, but it was too various for me, I couldn't stand it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Pray for me! I reckon if she knowed me she'd take a job that was more nearer her size. But I bet she done it, just the same--she w...as just the kind. She had the grit to pray for Judus if she took the notion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He ketched a frog one day and took him home and said he cal'lated to educate him; and so he never done nothing for three months bu...t set in his back yard and learn that frog to jump. And you bet he did learn him, too. He'd give him a little punch behind, and the next minute you'd see that frog whirling in the air like a doughnut--see him turn one summerset, or maybe a couple, if he got a good start, and come down flat-footed and all right, like a cat.... Smiley said all a frog wanted was education, and he could do most anything--and I believe him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »