“Certainty sent a sick dread snaking through his gut: he was being stalked.”
Source: The Bone House (2011), p. 304
1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero As King
Context: To me, in these circumstances, that of "Hero-worship" becomes a fact inexpressibly precious; the most solacing fact one sees in the world at present. There is an everlasting hope in it for the management of the world. Had all traditions, arrangements, creeds, societies that men ever instituted, sunk away, this would remain. The certainty of Heroes being sent us; our faculty, our necessity, to reverence Heroes when sent: it shines like a polestar through smoke-clouds, dust-clouds, and all manner of down-rushing and conflagration.
“Certainty sent a sick dread snaking through his gut: he was being stalked.”
Source: The Bone House (2011), p. 304
Source: "It Didn’t Take Long for Me to Feel Empathy: Nanfu Wang on In the Same Breath" in Roger Ebert https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/it-didnt-take-long-for-me-to-feel-empathy-nanfu-wang-on-in-the-same-breath (17 August 2021)
The Blessed Damozel http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/715.html (1850)
“Our Lord Jesus Christ, my brethren, is our hero, a hero all the world wants.”
Sermon (23 November 1879)
Letters, etc
1860s, Our Composite Nationality (1869)
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