
“God is a cloud from which rain fell.”
“A Cloud," p. 26
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “Skywalking”
“God is a cloud from which rain fell.”
“A Cloud," p. 26
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “Skywalking”
“Thank God it has rained all day.”
Source: The Life and Adventures of John James Audubon, the Naturalist (1868), Ch. XXIX, p. 348
Context: Thank God it has rained all day. I say thank God, though rain is no rarity, because it is the duty of every man to be thankful for whatever happens by the will of the Omnipotent Creator; yet it was not so agreeable to any of my party as a fine day would have been.
“If rain was God crying, I think God was drunk and his girlfriend just slept with Zeus.”
Source: Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story (2005)
“where some god pissed a rain of
reason to make things grow
only to die”
“Long ago an uncalled rain fell
And a called-upon God stayed equally distant.”
"Prayer," p. 47
The Shape (2000), Sequence: “Pit of the Stone”
“The gutters leaked like secrets, and the rain rained rain like rain…”
opening of side 2)
Sir Henry at Rawlinson End (1978)
Trump speaking at the CIA Headquarters about his inauguration crowd and the press coverage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMBqDN7-QLg, FOX 10 Phoenix (21 January 2017)
2010s, 2017, January
“Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.”
Source: Self-Consciousness : Memoirs (1989), Ch. 1