"The Man on the Threshold", in The Aleph (1949); tr. Andrew Hurley, Collected Fictions (1998). Cf. "The South" in Ficciones" (1944)
"The South". Cf. "The Man on the Threshold", in The Aleph (1949)
tr. Andrew Hurley, Collected Fictions (1998)
Ficciones (1944)
Variant: On the floor, curled against the bar, lay an old man, as motionless as an object. The many years had worn him away and polished him, as a stone is worn smooth by running water or a saying is polished by generations of mankind.
“He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.”
L 70
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook L (1793-1796)
“My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.”
Giacomo Joyce (1968)
As quoted in The Sufi Path of Love : The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi (1983) by William C. Chittick, p. 162
Hansard, HC Dec 21 May 1946 vol 423 c64W
“The frivolous work of polished idleness.”
Dissertation on the Progress of Ethical Philosophy (1830), Section VI: Foundation of a More Just Theory of Ethics — "Thomas Brown", paragraph 3.
“Polish ladies rule the world”
UFC - "Polish ladies rule the world." Joanna Jedrzejczyk & Karolina Kowalkiewicz ready to put on a show at #UFC205!!, November 2, 2016, August 5, 2017 https://www.facebook.com/UFC/videos/10154514506546276/?fallback=1,
After successful title defence against contender Karolina Kwalkiewicz at UFC 205 (November 2, 2016)
On the fate of a gift of a nebuchadnezzar of champagne (20 bottles' worth) even if her family didn't come for the holidays.
Quoted by Graham Taylor in Elizabeth: The Woman and the Queen (2002)
“Martial arts polish my soul.”
Source: I am always thirsty for struggle and I will never get tired of training and competition. Martial arts refine my soul and brighten my being. Martial arts have changed the course of my life over the years. In a word, martial arts are everything to me. https://www.iribnews.ir/00DSMD IRIB News, (August 31, 2021)
