Source: Tess of the D'Urbervilles
I, 4
Moralia, Of Eating of Flesh
Context: For the sake of some little mouthful of flesh, we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy. And then we fancy that the voices it utters and screams forth to us are nothing else but certain inarticulate sounds and noises, and not the several deprecations, entreaties, and pleadings of each of them.
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays
"The Superstitions of Fred Anneday, Annday, Anday; a Novel of Real Life" (1935)
How Writing Is Written: Previously Uncollected Writings, vol.II (1974)
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Variant: The area dividing the brain and the soul
Is affected in many ways by experience --
Some lose all mind and become soul:
insane.
Some lose all soul and become mind:
intellectual.
Some lose both and become:
accepted.
Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
Henry Vaughan (1621–1695) Welsh author, physician and metaphysical poet
"They Are All Gone," st. 7.
Silex Scintillans (1655)
“Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.”
Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist
Johannes Kepler book Mysterium Cosmographicum
Walter William Bryant, Kepler (1920), p. 17
Mysterium Cosmographicum (1596)
James Thomson (B.V.) (1834–1882) Scottish writer (1834-1882)
Part I
The City of Dreadful Night (1870–74)
Gordon Lightfoot (1938) Canadian singer-songwriter
Bitter Green, Track 4, UNITED ARTISTS
Back Here On Earth (1968)
