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 »
Women, for centuries not having access to pornography and now unable to bear looking at the muck on the supermarket shelves, are a...stonished. Women do not believe that men believe what pornography says about women. But they do. From the worst to the best of them, they do.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And his wish is intimacy, Intimater intimacy,... And a stricter privacy; The impossible shall yet be done, And, being two, shall still be one. As the wave breaks to foam on shelves, Then runs into a wave again, So lovers melt their sundered selves, Yet melted would be twain.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 »
They were not on the table with their elbows. They were not sleeping in the shelves of bunks.... I saw no men there and no bones of men there.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Young Man's Best Companion, The Farrier's Sure Guide, The Veterinary Surgeon, Paradise Lost, The Pilgrim's Progress, Robinson ...Crusoe, Ash's Dictionary, and Walkingame's Arithmetic, constituted his library; and though a limited series, it was one from which he had acquired more sound information by diligent perusal than many a man of opportunities had done from a furlong of laden shelves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Morning, a glass door, flashes Gold names off the new city,... Whose white shelves and domes travel The slow sky all day. I land to stay here....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The bells discuss the hour's gradations, Dusty shelves hold prayers and proofs:... Above, Chaldean constellations Sparkle over crowded roofs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Majority rule is a precious, sacred thing worth dying for. But--like other precious, sacred things, such as the home and the famil...y--it's not only worth dying for; it can make you wish you were dead. Imagine if all of life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza. Every pair of pants, even those in a Brooks Brothers suit, would be stonewashed denim. Celebrity diet and exercise books would be the only thing on the shelves at the library. And--since women are a majority of the population--we'd all be married to Mel Gibson.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »