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“A carnival in daylight is an unfinished beast, anyway. Rain makes it a ghost. The wheezing music from the empty, motionless rides in a soggy, rained-out afternoon midway always hit my chest with a sweet ache. The colored dance of lights in the seeping air flashed the puddles in the sawdust with an oily glamour.”

Light Air Sweet Rain Empty Ghost Beast Chests Afternoon Ache Glamour Daylight Unfinished Puddles Carnivals Midway Sawdust Wheezing

Author:Katherine Dunn

“Come, evening, once again, season of peace; Return, sweet evening, and continue long! Methinks I see thee in the streaky west, With matron step, slow moving, while the night Treads on thy sweeping train; one hand employ'd In letting fall the curtain of repose On bird and beast, the other charged for man With sweet oblivion of the cares of day.”

Source: Poems ... With an introductory essay by James Montgomery. [With plates.]

“But if one wishes to be absolute master of all, to obtain the entire inheritance, and to exclude his brothers from even a third or fifth part, he is not a brother, but a harsh tyrant, a rude savage, nay, more, an insatiable beast that would devour the whole sweet banquet with his own gaping mouth.”

Ifs Whole Wish Sweet Brother Masters Mouths Thirds Absolutes Environmental Beast Tyrants Savages Harsh Rude Fifth Inheritance Stewardship Insatiable Banquets

Author:Gregory of Nyssa

“What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?”

Reason Law Given Natural Sweet Bird Fishes Deny Beast Streams

Author:Pedro Calderon de la Barca

“Through neglect, ignorance, or inability, the new intellectual Borgias cram hairballs down our throats and refuse us the convulsion that could make us well. They have forgotten, if they ever knew, the ancient knowledge that only by being truly sick can one regain health. Even beasts know when it is good and proper to throw up. Teach me how to be sick then, in the right time and place, so that I may again walk in the fields and with the wise and smiling dogs know enough to chew sweet grass.”

Source: On stage: a chrestomathy of his plays

“I let the beast in too soon I don't know how to live without his hand on my throat. I fight him always and still. Oh, darling it's so sweet. You think you know how crazy, how crazy I am.”

Thinking Knows Stills Hands Fighting Know How Crazy Sweet Beast Throat Darling You Think You Know

Author:Fiona Apple

“Now I felt the long-forgotten urgency of lovemaking, when it seems one's human selves leave, to be replaced by hungry beasts bolting their food. Gone are the civilized beings who talk of manners and journeys and letters; in their places are two bodies straining to give birth to a burst of inhuman pleasure followed by a great, floating nothingness. An explosion of life followed by death - in this we live, and in this we foreshadow our own sweet deaths.”

Source: The Memoirs of Cleopatra