There is a play of the nineteen-twenties, called L'Abime (The Abyss), by the well known French author Suire. It has already passed... form the stage straight into the Lesser Lethe (the one, that is, that serves the theater--a stream, incidentally, not quite as hopeless as the main river, and containing a weaker solution of oblivion, so that angling producers may still fish something out many years later).LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Though the words Canada East on the map stretch over many rivers and lakes and unexplored wildernesses, the actual Canada, which m...ight be the colored portion of the map, is but a little clearing on the banks of the river, which one of those syllables would more than cover.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In order to get to East Russet you take the Vermont Central as far as Twitchell's Falls and change there for Torpid River Junction..., where a spur line takes you right into Gormley. At Gormley you are met by a buckboard which takes you back to Torpid River Junction again.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And this thy harbor, O my City, I have driven under, Tossed from the coil of ticking towers. . . . Tomorrow,... And to be . . . . Here by the River that is East--LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Senta: These boats, sir, what are they for? Hamar: They are solar boats for Pharaoh to use after his death. They're the means... by which Pharaoh will journey across the skies with the sun, with the god Horus. Each day they will sail from east to west, and each night Pharaoh will return to the east by the river which runs underneath the earth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Most people can swim a narrow river. Water is an alien element, but with labor we can force ourselves through it. A good swimmer c...an cross a wide river, a lake, even the English Channel; no one, as far as we know, has ever swum the Atlantic Ocean, or is likely to do so. Even a champion swimmer, if he had business which required to spend alternate weeks in Paris and London, would not make the trip regularly by swimming the English Channel. Although we can force ourselves through water by skill and main strength, for all practical purposes our ability to traverse water is only as good as our ships or our airplanes. And so with the activities of our brains. Thinking is probably as foreign to human nature as is water; it is an unnatural element into which we throw ourselves with hesitation, and in which we flounder once we are there. We have learned, during the millenniums, to do rather well with thinking, but only if we buoy ourselves up with words. Some thinking of a simple sort we can do without words, but difficult and sustained thinking, presumably, is completely impossible without their aid, as traversing the Atlantic Ocean is presumably impossible without instruments or supramarine transportation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The name of the town isn't important. It's the one that's just twenty-eight minutes from the big city. Twenty-three if you catch t...he morning express. It's on a river and it's got houses and stores and churches. And a main street. Nothing fancy like Broadway or Market, just plain Broadway. Drug, dry good, shoes. Those horrible little chain stores that breed like rabbits.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When it is all over and the blood Runs out, do not bury this man... By the far river (where never stood His fathers) flowing to the West, But take him East where life began.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ask me no more: thy fate and mine are sealed; I strove against the stream and all in vain;... Let the great river take me to the main. No more, dear love, for at a touch I yield; Ask me no more.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The current of our thoughts made as sudden bends as the river, which was continually opening new prospects to the east or south, b...ut we are aware that rivers flow most rapidly and shallowest at these points.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »