“As image and apprehension are in organic unity, so, for a Christian, are human body and human soul.” HumansSoulBodyChristianUnityHuman BodyHuman SoulApprehension Author:C. S. Lewis
“One could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object inches too low. Then one gave it up; then the idea sunk back again; then one became like most middle-aged people, cautious, furtive, with wrinkles between the eyes and a look of perpetual apprehension. For how could one express in words these emotions of the body? express that emptiness there?” PeopleLooksIdeasMomentsBodyEyeEmotionMiddleObjectsLowsMarkEmptinessInchesPerpetualCautiousUrgencyWrinklesApprehensionBack AgainMiddle AgedSideways Author:Virginia Woolf
“Men who shrink from penetration of the female body are paralyzed by justifiable apprehension, since they are returning to our uncanny site of origin.” MenBodyFemaleSiteShrinksApprehensionParalyzedUncannyFemale BodyPenetration Book:Vamps & Tramps: New Essays Source: Vamps & Tramps: New Essays
“Men of superior vivacity and wit, when they take a wrong turn, are generally worse than other men: because wit, consisting in a lively representation of ideas assembled together, gives every sensible object those heightening touches, and that striking imagery, which is unknown to men of slower apprehensions: wit being to sensible objects, what light is to bodies; it does not merely show them as they are in themselves: it gives an adventitious colour, which is not a property inherent in them: it lends them beauties which are not their own.” MenGivingDoeIdeasShowsBodyLightTogetherTurnsObjectsPropertyWitSuperiorsColourSensibleInherentRepresentationImageryLivelyApprehensionWrong TurnVivacity Author:Jeremiah Seed