During Prohibition days, when South Carolina was actively advertising the iodine content of its vegetables, the Hell Hole brand of... 'liquid corn' was notorious with its waggish slogan: 'Not a Goiter in a Gallon.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hell is out of fashion--institutional hells at any rate. The populated infernos of the 20th century are more private affairs, the ...gaps between the bars are the sutures of one's own skull.... A valid hell is one from which there is a possibility of redemption, even if this is never achieved, the dungeons of an architecture of grace whose spires point to some kind of heaven. The institutional hells of the present century are reached with one-way tickets, marked Nagasaki and Buchenwald, worlds of terminal horror even more final than the grave.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels & God, and at liberty when of Devils & Hell, is because he was a true P...oet, and of the Devil's party without knowing it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And, indeed, is there not something holy about a great kitchen?... The scoured gleam of row upon row of metal vessels dangling fro...m hooks or reposing on their shelves till needed with the air of so many chalices waiting for the celebration of the sacrament of food. And the range like an altar, yes, before which my mother bowed in perpetual homage, a fringe of sweat upon her upper lip and the fire glowing in her cheeks.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Throwing open the door, she brings forth the veritable queen of all the souffles, that spreads its archangelic wings over the enti...re kitchen as it leaps upwards from the dish in which the force of gravity alone confines it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Seraphs and saints with one great voice Welcomed that soul that knew not fear.... Amazed to find it could rejoice, Hell raised a hoarse, half-human cheer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
How long she stayed I cannot tell; But when she felt this perfidy,... She marched across the floor of hell; And all the damned stood up to see.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Builder, in building the little house, In every way you may please yourself;... But please please me in the kitchen chimney: Don't build me a chimney upon a shelf.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Before the time I did Lysander see, Seemed Athens as a paradise to me.... O then, what graces in my love do dwell, That he hath turned a heaven unto a hell?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »