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 »
On the day that will always belong to you, lunar clockwork had faltered... and I was certain. Walking the streets of Manhattan I thought: Remember this day. I felt already like an urn, filling with wine.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Substantial pieces of goods [were] very offensive to her Ladyship's sight. They, for their clumsiness, were discarded, and in thei...r room were placed China images and all manner of Chinese figures: some that stood still and some that, by pulling a string, might be put into such insignificant shakings and motions as made the heads of the beholders giddy.... And thus was this noble ancient castle, which in its old form struck the imagination both with dignity and simplicity, filled with such trifling gewgaws that it was dangerous to move, lest some of the clockwork trumpery should be thrown down and put out of joint.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sorrento, August. For two weeks now I haven't heard a German word or understood an Italian one. This way one can manage to live wi...th people; everything goes like clockwork and no irksome misunderstanding can arise.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What we were after now was the old surprise visit. That was a real kick, good for laughs and lashings of the old ultraviolence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »