“His mind fell asleep. His wits fell awake. His cock trembled like a harp-string.”
Source: Titus Alone (1959), Chapter 42 (p. 881)
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English writer, artist, poet and illustrator 1911–1968Related quotes
“Be boastful and be bold, like cock beside his partner.”
Kόμπασον θαρσῶν, ἀλέκτωρ ὥστε θηλείας πέλας.
Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, line 1671 (tr. Anna Swanwick)
Description of Washington's death in Life of Washington (1800); this fanciful account bears no relation to the report of Washington's last words by his personal secretary Tobias Lear, who wrote in his journal (14 December 1799) http://gwpapers.virginia.edu/project/exhibit/mourning/lear.html: About ten o'clk he made several attempts to speak to me before he could effect it, at length he said, — "I am just going. Have me decently buried; and do not let my body be put into the Vault in less than three days after I am dead." I bowed assent, for I could not speak. He then looked at me again and said, "Do you understand me? I replied "Yes." "Tis well" said he.
“Time Fighter” (p. 67); originally published in Fantastic Universe, March 1957
Short Fiction, A Pail of Air (1964)
