“One may decide that the nipple most nearly resembles a newly ripened raspberry (never, be it noted, the plonk of water on a pond at the commencement of a drizzle, a simple bladder nozzle built on the suction principal gum bubble, mole, or birth ward, bumpy metal button, or the painful red eruption of a swelling), but does one care to see his breakfast fruit as a sweetened milky bowl of snipped nips? no.” MayDoeBodyCareWaterSimpleBirthBuiltRedFruitPainfulBreastsBreakfastMetalsBubblesBowlsPrincipalButtonsPondsGumCommencementMolesSwellingNipplesEruptionBladderRaspberriesDrizzle Author:William H. Gass
“I hate ideologies of all kinds, so I avoid jargon. I've done enough philosophy to know that some specialized terms are really needed. I don't complain when Kant does it. Or when Aristotle introduces all kinds of new words; he needed them. But these other people [modern philosophers] are just obfuscating. It just makes me annoyed.” PeopleKnowsKindDoeDoneEnoughPhilosophyHateTermModernNeededI HatePhilosopherComplainingAll KindsIdeologyIntroducingAnnoyedJargonNew Words Author:William H. Gass
“The death of God represents not only the realization that gods have never existed, but the contention that such a belief is no longer even irrationally possible: that neither reason nor the taste and temper of the times condones it. The belief lingers on, of course, but it does so like astrology or a faith in a flat earth.” DoeReasonEarthCoursesBeliefTasteRealizationFlatsTemperAstrologyContention Author:William H. Gass
“We converse as we live by repeating, by combining and recombining a few elements over and over again just as nature does when of elementary particles it builds a world.” WorldDoeElementsLive ByParticlesConversesCombining Book:The world within the word: essays Source: The world within the word: essays
