
1850s, Two Discourses at Friday Communion (August 1851)
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Gnostic Gospels, Gospel of Thomas (c. 2nd century AD manuscript)
1850s, Two Discourses at Friday Communion (August 1851)
“Heavenly bodies are nests of invisible birds.”
“Nests,” p. 55
The Creator (2000), Sequence: “The Whisper of Eternity”
Source: Short fiction, Picking Up the Pieces (2011), p. 191
Context: I pushed her back hard. “You don’t belong with them; you’re not special, you have no place in any unseen world; you’re like me and the rest of our family. Get used to it!” She looked at me like I’d slapped her.
“Oh, sorry,” I said, feeling equally stung by her reaction. “It’s hell being ordinary, but that’s the human condition.”
Poem: The Armadillo http://unix.cc.wmich.edu/~cooneys/poems/bishop.armadillo.html
“If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.”
“The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.”
“Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 74.