
Source: Vamps and Tramps (1994), "No Law in the Arena: A Pagan Theory of Sexuality", p. 37
"Come, Holy Harlequin" (1974)
Context: Come holy harlequin!
Shake the world and shock the hypocrite
Rock, love, carry it away, turn it upside down.
Let the feast of love begin,
Let the hungry all come in,
Rock, love, carry it away, turn it upside down.
Source: Vamps and Tramps (1994), "No Law in the Arena: A Pagan Theory of Sexuality", p. 37
The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror (2010)
Source: Faith Beyond Resentment: Fragments Catholic and Gay (2001), " The man blind from birth and the Creator's subversion of sin http://girardianlectionary.net/res/fbr_ch-1_john9.htm", p. 19.
“They want to shake up the world, not make it wiser.”
“History, as it comes into our daily lives, is charged with surprise and shock.”
Source: The Future As History (1960), Chapter I, Part 1, The Shock of Events, p. 13
Environmentalism as a Religion (2003)
Context: The notion that the natural world obeys its own rules and doesn't give a damn about your expectations comes as a massive shock... it will demand that you adapt to it — and if you don't, you die. It is a harsh, powerful, and unforgiving world, that most urban westerners have never experienced.
“It shocks me how I wish for… what is lost and cannot come back.”
Source: Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story