“The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.”
Zora Neale Hurston book Seraph on the Suwanee
Source: Seraph on the Suwanee
“I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me. That white round thing without any holes … have you ever seen anything more revolting than an egg yolk breaking and spilling its yellow liquid? Blood is jolly, red. But egg yolk is yellow, revolting. I’ve never tasted it.”
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“The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world.”
Hermann Hesse book Demian
Source: Demian (1919), p. 166
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As translated by W. J. Strachan
Context: The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God's name is Abraxas.