Diddy-Wah-Diddy ... is a place of no work and no worry for man or beast. The road to it is so crooked that a mule pulling a load o...f fodder can eat off the back of the wagon as he plods along. All curbstones are chairs, and all food is already cooked. Baked chickens and sweet potato pies, with convenient knives and forks, drift along crying, 'Eat me! Eat me!'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are supposed to be the children of Seth; but Seth is too much of an effete nonentity to deserve ancestral regard. No, we are th...e sons of Cain, and with violence can be associated the attacks on sound, stone, wood and metal that produced civilisation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Drinking tents were full, glasses began to clink in carriages, hampers to be unpacked, tempting provisions to be set forth, knives... and forks to rattle, champagne corks to fly, eyes to brighten that were not dull before, and pickpockets to count their gains during the last heat. The attention so recently strained on one object of interest, was now divided among a hundred; and, look where you would, there was a motley assemblage of feasting, talking, begging, gambling and mummery.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They will mark the stone-battlements And the circle of them... With a bright stain. They will cast out the dead A sight for Priam's queen to lament And her frightened daughters.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sexual sadism actualizes male identity. Women are tortured, whipped, and chained; women are bound and gagged, branded and burned, ...cut with knives and wires; women are pissed on and shit on; red-hot needles are driven into breasts, bones are broken, rectums are torn, mouths are ravaged, cunts are savagely bludgeoned by penis after penis, dildo after dildo--and all of this to establish in the male a viable sense of his own worth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a qu...otation from all his ancestors.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There were metal detectors on the staff-room doors and Hernandez usually had a drawer full of push-daggers, nunchuks, stun-guns, k...nucks, boot-knives, and whatever else the detectors had picked up. Like Friday morning at a South Miami high school.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let the space under the first storey be dark, let the water lap the stone posts, and vivid green slime glimmer... upon them; let a boat be kept there.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I sweep. One gyrates like a top and falls And stunned, stone blind, and deaf... Buzzes its frightful F And dies between three cannibals.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »