Large department stores, with their luxuriant abundance of canned goods, foods, and clothing, are like the primary landscape and t...he geometrical locus of affluence. Streets with overcrowded and glittering store windows ... the displays of delicacies, and all the scenes of alimentary and vestimentary festivity, stimulate a magical salivation. Accumulation is more than the sum of its products: the conspicuousness of surplus, the final and magical negation of scarcity ... mimic a new-found nature of prodigious fecundity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And when his hours are numbered, and the world Is all his own, retiring, as he were not,... Leaves, when the sun appears, astonished Art To mimic in slow structures, stone by stone, Built in an age, the mad wind's night-work, The frolic architecture of the snow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He is to the great poet, what an excellent mimic is to a great actor. There is no determinate impression left on the mind by readi...ng his poetry.... A great mind is one that moulds the minds of others.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we sposed to choke our natural self into the weird..., lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law. Because, in other words, the powerful don't play; they mean to keep that power, and those who are the powerless (you and me) better shape up--mimic/ape/suck--in the very image of the powerful, or the powerful will destroy you--you and our children.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I don't know but a book in a man's brain is better off than a book bound in calf--at any rate it is safer from criticism. And taki...ng a book off the brain, is akin to the ticklish & dangerous business of taking an old painting off a panel--you have to scrape off the whole brain in order to get at it with due safety--& even then, the painting may not be worth the trouble.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But know that in the soul Are many lesser faculties that serve... Reason as chief; among these fancy next Her office holds. Of all external things. Which the five watchful senses represent She forms imaginations, airy shapes Which reason, joining or disjoining, frames All what we affirm or what deny, and call Our knowledge or opinion; then retires Into her private cell when nature rests Oft in her absence mimic fancy wakes To imitate her; but, misjoining shapes, Wild work produces oft, and most in dreams, Ill matching words and deeds long past or late.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »