O ship white-sailed of Crete,... you brought my mistress from her quiet palace through breaker and crash of surf to love-rite of unhappiness!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It was only too probable that among the half-converted Pagans and Jews, any rite, any form, would find favor, whilst yet unable to... comprehend the spiritual character of Christianity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[T]he Congregational minister in a neighboring town definitely stated that 'the same spirit which drove the herd of swine into the... sea drove the Baptists into the water, and that they were hurried along by the devil until the rite was performed.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mother baseball. I enjoy speculating about its bloody beginnings as a fertility rite. Funny that with all the verbiage about the s...port no one mentions the obvious structural relationship between a baseball stadium and a womb: in design, a stadium is both a circle and a "Y," two notorious female symbols. The curved and sloping shape of the stands is like a plush endometrium in which we fans cozy up to watch a lone batter square off against the universe.... I especially like to think about that when announcers describe players' bats as fast, corked, dead, quiet, live, or as loaded barrels--and pitches as high hard ones.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. A...nyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That nameless and infinitely delicate aroma of inexpressible tenderness and attentiveness which, in every refined and honorable at...tachment, is contemporary with the courtship, and precedes the final banns and the rite; but which, like the bouquet of the costliest German wines, too often evaporates upon pouring love out to drink, in the disenchanting glasses of the matrimonial days and nights.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A woman can get marries and her life does change. And a man can get married and his life changes. But nothing changes life as dram...atically as having a child. . . . In this country, it is a particular experience, a rite of passage, if you will, that is unsupported for the most part, and rather ignored. Somebody will send you a couple of presents for the baby, but people do not acknowledge the massive experience to the parents involved.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »