Because humans are not alone in exhibiting such behavior--bees stockpile royal jelly, birds feather their nests, mice shred paper-...-it's possible that a pregnant woman who scrubs her house from floor to ceiling [just before her baby is born] is responding to a biological imperative . . . . Of course there are those who believe that . . . the burst of energy that propels a pregnant woman to clean her house is a perfectly natural response to their mother's impending visit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In this Journal, my pen is a delicate needle point, tracing out a graph of temperament so as to show its daily fluctuations: grave... and gay, up and down, lamentation and revelry, self-love and self-disgust. You get here all my thoughts and opinions, always irresponsible and often contradictory or mutually exclusive, all my moods and vapours, all the varying reactions to environment of this jelly which is I.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I ask myself: what are my views on death, the next world, God? I look into my mind and discover I am too much of a mannikin to hav...e any. As for death, I am a little bit of trembling jelly of anticipation. I am prepared for anything, but I am the complete agnostic; I simply don't know. To have views, faith, beliefs, one needs a backbone. This great bully of a universe overwhelms me. The stars make me cower. I am intimidated by the immensity surrounding my own littleness. It is futile and presumptuous for me to opine anything about the next world. But I hope for something much freer and more satisfying after death, for emancipation of the spirit and above all for the obliteration of this puny self, this little, skulking, sharp-witted ferret.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"My mother is jelly-hearted and she has a brain of jelly: Sweet, quiver-soft, irrelevant. Not essential.... Only a habit would cry if she should die...."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is always allowable to ask for artichoke jelly with your boiled venison; however there are houses where this is not supplied.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And she, by passion once demented MThat woman out of Botticelli--... She brews and bottles, unfermented, The stupid and abiding jelly.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I love this child. Red-haired--patient and gentle like her mother--fey and funny like her father. When she giggles I can hear him ...when he and I were young. I am part of this child. It may be only because we share genes and that therefore smell familiar to each other. . . . It may be that a part of me lives in her in some important way. . . . But for now, it's jelly beans and "Old MacDonald" that unite us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A little meat best fits a little belly, As sweetly Lady, give me leave to tell ye,... This little Pipkin fits this little Jelly.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »