Here stands the row of enormous stelæ that have furnished the date that links the Mayan calendar to ours. These stones standing g...rimly in line, swelling with the enormous strength of their halfobliterated carvings, still give you, through all the confusion of races and empires long dead, of languages and writings that can never be understood, a feeling of serene order and form... so that after seeing them, the railroad and the guns and the overseers and the loading sheds and the uptodate malaria hospital, all the carefully organized machinery for efficiently squeezing...the sweat and blood of the yellow brown and white mongrel race of workers who live in the rows of company shacks...seems feeble and flabby, not organization at all, not order at all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hours before dawn we were woken by the quake. My house was on a cliff. The thing could take... Bookloads off shelves, break bottles in a row. Then the long pause and then the bigger shake. It seemed the best thing to be up and go.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
How long shall we sit in our porticoes practising idle and musty virtues, which any work would make impertinent? As if one were to... begin the day with long-suffering, and hire a man to hoe his potatoes; and in the afternoon go forth to practise Christian meekness and charity with goodness aforethought!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I feel no more like a man now than I did in long skirts, unless it be that enjoying more freedom and cutting off the fetters is to... be like a man. I suppose in that respect we are more mannish, for we know that in dress, as in all things else, we have been and are slaves, while man in dress and all things else is free.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
'I told him, Look at all those fightings and killings down there, What's the matter? Why don't you put a stop to it?... 'I try, he said--That's all he could do, he looked tired. He's a bachelor so long, and he likes lentil soup.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
last time I saw you was the hospital pale skull protruding under ashen skin... blue veined unconscious girl in an oxygen tent the war in Spain has ended long ago Aunt RoseLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »