Lust is a mysterious wound in the side of humanity; or rather, at the very source of its life! To confound this lust in man with t...hat desire which unites the sexes is like confusing a tumor with the very organ which it devours, a tumor whose very deformity horribly reproduces the shape.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before c...riticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hannah Hunter: Medicine is the most noble and unselfish-- Col. John Marlowe: Sure, noble profession, noble oath, lanterns hel...d on high--so high they won't admit they're gropin' for.... There was a girl, not much older than that boy in there. I wasn't unfair then, understand. Because they used a lot of fancy words that an ordinary section hand wouldn't understand. So I held her down, while two of them worked on her. I trusted doctors then, believed in 'em, because I was in love, and I didn't want to see her die. A tumor they said it was, and it had to come out right away. So they stuck a leather strap in her mouth so she could bite off her screams, while they cut a way to get in there. And what did they find--nothing! Oh, they were sorry. Sure. They made a mistake. They had something they could talk about before their next little experiment. But what about me. They left me beggin' her not to die. And I lost my wife.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Pregnancy demonstrates the deterministic character of woman's sexuality. Every pregnant woman has body and self taken over by a ch...thonian force beyond her control. In the welcome pregnancy, this is a happy sacrifice. But in the unwanted one, initated by rape or misadventure, it is a horror. Such unfortunate women look directly into nature's heart of darkness. For a fetus is a benign tumor, a vampire who steals in order to live. The so-called miracle of birth is nature getting her own way.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Cap off and then what? The brains as... helpless as oysters in a pint container, the nerves like phone wires. God, take care, take infinite care with the tumor lest it spread like grease.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »