“Book #8: The Vesalius Anatomy of Birth. As it hits the water, it screams and spurts blood like a pierced heart -- as it sinks, there is a suggestion of entrails.”
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“Hit it! With words like Blood, Soldier and Mother…”
Song lyrics, Prayers on Fire (1981), A Dead Song
“Sweeter than apples to children
The green water spurted through my pine-wood hull.”
Plus douce qu'aux enfants la chair des pommes sures,
L'eau verte pénétra ma coque de sapin.
St. 5
Le Bateau Ivre http://www.mag4.net/Rimbaud/poesies/Boat.html (The Drunken Boat) (1871)
“When the sad sun sinks,
It shall pierce through the body of wax till it shrinks!”
Nurse.
Hérodiade (1898)
Context: When the sad sun sinks,
It shall pierce through the body of wax till it shrinks!
No sunset, but the red awakening
Of the last day concluding everything
Struggles so sadly that time disappears,
The redness of apocalypse, whose tears
Fall on the child, exiled to her own proud
Heart, as the swan makes its plumage a shroud
For its eyes, the old swan, and is carried away
From the plumage of grief to the eternal highway
Of its hopes, where it looks on the diamonds divine
Of a moribund star, which never more shall shine!
“Sometimes grace works like water wings when you feel you are sinking.”
Source: Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith
“Blood spurted from his nose. Okay, I couldn't help myself. I burst out laughing.”
Source: Alice in Zombieland
From the eighth book, "The Book of the Seducer"
The Pillow Book