“Once again...Rick Bass draws us into his magical human worlds, rendered urgently by a hypnotic prose that tracks a parallel and untamed natural world, often with a trace of loss and always patrolled by unmistakable decency. He is a master of this form.” WorldHumansFormNaturalLossMastersDrawsTrackProseParallelsDecencyNatural WorldBassHypnoticUntamed Author:Doug Peacock
“Many young people adopt pleasures for which they have not the least taste, only because they are called by that name.... You mustallow that drunkenness, which is equally destructive to body and mind, is a fine pleasure. Gaming, that draws you into a thousand scraps, leaves you penniless, and gives you the air and manners of an outrageous madman, is another most exquisite pleasure, is it not? As to running after women, the consequences of that vice are only the loss of one's nose, the total destruction of health, and, not unfrequently, the being run through the body.” PeopleGivingMindBodyRunningYoungNamesLossPleasureAirFineTasteThousandDrawsConsequenceDestructionDrinkingVicesMannersNosesDestructiveGamblingMind And BodyExquisiteOutrageousMadmenDrunkennessScrapGaming Author:Lord Chesterfield
“The nearer a conception comes towards finality, the nearer does the dynamic relation, out of which this concept has arisen, draw to a close. To know is to lose.” KnowsDoeChangeLosesLossKnowledgeDrawsConceptsRelationConceptionFinality Book:Fantasia of the Unconscious: Top Novelist Focus Source: Fantasia of the Unconscious: Top Novelist Focus
“Should God create another Eve, and I Another Rib afford, yet loss of thee Would never from my heart; no no, I feel The Link of Nature draw me: Flesh of Flesh, Bone of my Bone thou art, and from thy State Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe.” FeelsShouldHeartArtStatesLossMinesMy HeartDrawsBonesFleshTheeBlissLinksWoeRibsParadise Lost Book 9Paradise Lost Book 1 Author:John Milton