Variant: Old men only lie in wait for people to ask them to talk. Then they rattle on like a rusty elevator wheezing up a shaft.
Source: Dandelion Wine (1957), p. 81
“It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.”
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American journalist and author 1937–2005Related quotes
The Mask of Apollo (1966)
Context: Christianity and Islam have changed irrevocably the moral reflexes of the world. The philosopher Herakleitos said with profound truth that you cannot step twice into the same river. The perpetual stream of human nature is formed into ever-changing shallows, eddies, falls and pools by the land over which it passes. Perhaps the only real value of history lies in considering this endlessly varied play between the essence and the accidents.
George William Russell
(1867–1935) Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, and artistic painter
The Nuts of Knowledge (1903)
“Like a mermaid rising from an ocean of paper, the girl emerged across the room.”
Source: The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
(1809–1892) British poet laureate
" The Golden Year http://home.att.net/%7ETennysonPoetry/tgy.htm", st. 3 (1842)
“Like a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest.”
John Keats
(1795–1821) English Romantic poet