
“Our emotions
Are only “incidents”
In the effort to keep day and night together.”
Source: Silver Blaze
“Our emotions
Are only “incidents”
In the effort to keep day and night together.”
“My dad played in different clubs and open mic nights. But he mostly walked dogs. A lot of dogs.”
Rachel's story of how her father, Jason, started out performing.
Off & On Broadway documentary (2006)
Source: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
2002, "When select phrases are lifted and distorted out of context", 2002
“The night was a time for bestial affinities, for drawing closer to oneself.”
Source: Strangers on a Train
“I pray thee let me and my fellow have
A haire of the dog that bit us last night.”
Part I, chapter 11.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variant: A heare of the dog that bote vs last night.
Source: I Am Legend (1954), Ch. 2
Context: They were strange, the facts about them: their staying inside by day, their avoidance of garlic, their death by stake, their reputed fear of crosses, their supposed dread of mirrors.
Take that last, now. According to legend, they were invisible in mirrors, but he knew that was untrue. As untrue as the belief that they transformed themselves into bats. That was a superstition that logic, plus observation had easily disposed of. ‘It was equally foolish to believe that they could transform themselves into wolves. Without a doubt there were vampire dogs; he had seen and heard them outside his house at night. But they were only dogs.