The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful. The Greeks engendered the chimera, a ...monster with heads of the lion, the dragon and the goat; the theologians of the second century, the Trinity, in which the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost are inextricably tied; the Chinese zoologists, the ti-yiang, a vermilion supernatural bird, endowed with six feet and four wings, but without a face or eyes; the geometers of the nineteenth century, the hypercube, a figure with four dimensions, which encloses an infinite number of cubes and has as its faces eight cubes and twenty-four squares. Hollywood has just enriched this vain museum of horrors: by means of an artistic malignity called dubbing, it proposes monsters that combine the illustrious features of Greta Garbo with the voice of Aldonza Lorenzo.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Men are born to write. The gardener saves every slip, and seed, and peach-stone: his vocation is to be a planter of plants. Not le...ss does the writer attend his affair. Whatever he beholds or experiences, comes to him as a model, and sits for its picture. He counts it all nonsense that they say, that some things are undescribable. He believes that all that can be thought can be written, first or last; and he would report the Holy Ghost, or attempt it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The word by seers or sibyls told, In groves of oak, or fanes of gold,... Still floats upon the morning wind, Still whispers to the willing mind. One accent of the Holy Ghost The heedless world hath never lost.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I would say here something that was heard from an ecclesiastic of the most eminent degree; "That the intention of the Holy Ghost i...s to teach us how one goes to heaven, not how the heaven goes."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
a voice still so hollow That it seems to call out to me from forty years ago,... When you were all aglow, And not the thin ghost that I now frailly follow!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nota: man is the intelligence of his soil, The sovereign ghost. As such, the Socrates... Of snails, musician of pears, principium And lex. Sed quæritur: is this same wig Of things, this nincompated pedagogue, Preceptor to the sea?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »