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Page 88 of 1121996 · PDF PAGE 216
…cret fourfold word, the blasphemy against all gods of men. 50. Curse them! Curse them! Curse them! 51. With my Hawk’s head I peck at the eyes of Jesus as he hangs upon the cross. 52. I flap my wings in the face of Mohammed & blind him. 53. With my claws I tear out the flesh of the Indian and the Bud dhist, Mongol and Din. 54. Bahlasti! Ompehda! I spit on your crapulous creeds. 55. Let Mary inviolate be torn upon wheels: for her sake let all chaste women be utterly despised among you! 56. Also for beauty’s sake and love’s! 57. Despise also all …
1904 · PDF PAGE 71
…he boyish lips, the blood gushed from his mouth, and he expired in torment. It was now my sisters turn to choose the sport. Her lustful eyes fixed upon a fine and full- [69]
1909 · PDF PAGE 351
AMONGST THE MERMAIDS mother lying on her side with her head on the rock, and the tears were streaming from her eyes. So he stooped down and placed the little selkies near her, and the mother clasped them to her bosom with her megs and then she looked up into Mansie’s face, and all the happiness in the world was in that look: for on that day the selkie did everything but speak. Mansie was a young man then, and some time afterwards he married and settled on the west of Eday. One evening when he was fishing for sillocks on an ebb-rock, which could…
1909 · PDF PAGE 351
AMONGST THE MERMAIDS mother lying on her side with her head on the rock, and the tears were streaming from her eyes. So he stooped down and placed the little selkies near her, and the mother clasped them to her bosom with her megs and then she looked up into Mansie’s face, and all the happiness in the world was in that look: for on that day the selkie did everything but speak. Mansie was a young man then, and some time afterwards he married and settled on the west of Eday. One evening when he was fishing for sillocks on an ebb-rock, which could…
1922 · PDF PAGE 25
fA Knight Out II absurd and ridiculous joke—that these two eyes belonged to a girl’s face. Across the moaning body of the blackmaier, I was looking at the face of a girl that I had never seen before. And I said to myself, “‘ Well, that’s all right, I’ve known you all my life.” And when I said to myself “my life,” I didn’t in the least mean my life as Peter Pendragon, I didn’t even mean a life extending through the centuries, I meant a different kind of life—some- thing with which centuries have nothing whatever to do. And then Peter Pendragon c…
1922 · PDF PAGE 44
…ng but the unison of two rich racing rhythms. You know how it is when you are flying—vyou see a speck in the air. You can’t tell by your eyes if it is your Brother Boche coming to pot you, or one of our own or one of the allied ‘planes. But you can tell them apart, foe from friend, by the different beat of their engines. So one comes to apprehend a particular rhythm as sympathetic—another as hostile. - So here were Lou and I flying together beyond the bounds of eternity, side by side; her low, persistent throb in perfect second to my great gall…
1922 · PDF PAGE 91
…sionate kisses. She divined that I was not in any condition to respond. “You still need your nurse,” she laughed merrily, with sparkling eyes. and flashing teeth and nostrils twitching with excitement. I saw on the tip of one delicious little curling hair a crystal glimmer that I knew. She had been out in the snowstorm ! _ My cunning twisted smile told her that I was wise to the game. “Yes,” she said excitedly, ‘‘I see how it’s done now. You pull yourself together with H. and then you start the buzz-wagon with C. Come along, put in the clutch.”…
1930 · PDF PAGE 130
… 9. Thou hast health$ slay thyself in the fervour of thine abandonment unto Our Lady. Let thy flesh hang loose upon thy bones, and thine eyes glare with thy quenchless lust unto the Infinité, with thy passion for the Unknown, for Her that is beyond Knowledge the accursed one. IG. Thou hast love3 tear thy mother from thine heart and spit in the face of thy father. Let thy foot trample the belly of thy wife, and let the babe at her breast be the prey of dogs and vultures. 11. For if thou dost not this with thy will, then shall We do — 430 —
1954 · PDF PAGE 489
…l position") tend to create fresh unnecessary necessities . Ad infinitum, like the fleas in the epigram! When laws are reasonable in the eyes of the average man, he respects them, keeps them, does his best to maintain them ; therefore a minute Police Force , with powers strictly limited, is adequate to deal with the almost negligibly small criminal class. A convention is laudable when it is convenient. When laws are unjust, monstrous, ridiculous, that same average man, will he-nill he, becomes a criminal; and the law requires a Tcheka or Gestap…
1922 · PDF PAGE 57
Phaeton 43 right kind of nothing. But I divined a certain shrewd- ness in his eyes; it belied his mask of ostentatious innocence. There was another man there too, a kind of half- baked Nonconformist parson, one Jabez Platt, who had realised early in life that his mission was to go about doing good. Some people said that he had done a great deal of good—to himself. His principle in politics was a very simple one: If you see anything, stop it; everything that is, is wrong; the world is a very wicked place. He was very enthusiastic about putting t…
1922 · PDF PAGE 380
…bore the murmur of the sea up the scented slopes. The lights in the town went out. The Pole Star stood above the summit of the rock. Our eyes were fixed on it. We could imagine the precession of the FEquinoxes as identical with our own perpetual travelling through time. Lou pressed my hand. I found myself repeating the words of the creed. ““T confess my life, one, individual, and eternal, that was, and is, and is to come.’ ”’ Her voice murmured in my ear, ‘‘I believe in the communion of Saints.”
1907 · PDF PAGE 189
… dead may take their rest. MINOS. Arise to the air, arise ! cEACUS. Away to the mountain crest ! RHADAMANTHUS. Veil, veil from the awful eyes ! MINOS. Endure thy heart as it may, And steel thine heart, Thou shalt hear and know and obey As I say ‘‘ Depart” ; Lest the arrow find its way And the sternly-shapen dart. AL ACUS. A second our justice waits. RHADAMANTHUS. It falleth anon. MINOS. O fool of hopes and hates Arise and begone ! AL ACUS. O toy of the mirthless fates! Who art thou to con The mysteries of the dead in the black-souled bastion ? …
1922 · PDF PAGE 268
… he said. “It’s a great help to me that you should have been able to remember.” Something in his tone caught my imagination vividly. His eyes burnt through me. I began to wonder whether there were any truth in what was said about the diabolical powers of the man. Could he have divined the reason for our coming to the café? I had the absolute certainty that he knew all about it, though it was humanly impossible that he should. “A very strange theory, that about death,” he said. “I wonder if there’s anything in it. It would really be too easy if …
1922 · PDF PAGE 326
…ion, natural as it was, coming from such an extraordinary quarter, set us off laughing again. Dionysus was regarding us with big serious eyes. “You'll do,” he suddenly decided; and began to execute a little step-dance of his own. But we could see that Hermes, with all his unwilling- ness to interfere with other people, was impatient; and we scrambled to our feet. This time, Lou took his hand, and left me to bring up the rear with Dionysus, who poured forth an unending stream of prattle. I could not even hear it; the whole thing was too much for…
1929 · PDF PAGE 548
…o suit her ideas of right and wrong. She was shocked to the limit by our principles and conduct. She gazed with a dropped jaw and glassy eyes, wondering how it was that the frightful catastrophes which were bound to result did not happen. It was a little like those crofters at foyers waiting to see the wrath of God consume the aluminum works that scorned the sabbath. Was she dreaming? Were we really living, loving and laughing, healthy and happy, when, by all rules, we ought to be shrieking with agony in the madhouse, the gaol or the lock hospi…
1911 · PDF PAGE 68
…ther up every spirit that is pure, and weave him into my vesture of flame. I lick up the lives of men, and their souls sparkle from mine eyes. I am the mighty sorceress, the lust of the spirit. And by my dancing I gather for my mother Nuit the heads of all them that are baptised in the waters of life. I am the lust of the spirit that eateth up the soul of man. I have prepared a feast for the adepts, and they that partake thereof shall see God. Now it is clear what she has woven in her dance; it is the Crimson Rose of 49 Petals, and the Pillars …
1922 · PDF PAGE 308
…turned to Mrs. Webster. ‘““ What happened ?”’ I asked curtly. The woman had resumed her mask. She threw a defiant glance at Platt, whose eyes shot a venomous question. “‘T can’t understand it at all,’”’ she said slowly. ‘‘ She seemed very uneasy all the time she was in the bed- room. I thought she was missing her dope. If I had had any on me, I’d have given her a big jolt. Dummer Esel{ Tl never go out without it again so long as I live. I forget what excuse she made. I thought it was just camouflage to go and get her heroin.” Silence fell betwe…
1904 · PDF PAGE 12
…- ble and commanding, yet sly, as if ever ready to laugh at the intricacies of his own intellect, sat next to him, his deep and wondrous eyes lit with strange light, while with words like burning flames of steel he shore asunder the sophistries of one, the complacencies of another. They were feared, these two ! There also did he meet the well known ethicist, I . . . , fair as a boy, with boys golden locks curling about his Grecian head ; I . . . , the pure and subtle-minded student, whose lively hu- mour and sparkling sarcasm were as froth upo…
1929 · PDF PAGE 203
Beholding all, with eyes whose flashes flood The veins of their own universe with blood; Absorbing all, each myriad mouth aflame To utter the unutterable Name That calls all souls, the greatest and the least, To the unimaginable marriage-feast; And, in the self-same sacrament, is stirred To recreate their essence with a Word; This All, this Sire and Lord of All, abides Behind the unbounded torrent of Its tides, [285] In silence of all deed, or word, or thought, So that we name It not, or name It Naught. This is the Truth behind the lie called G…
1954 · PDF PAGE 148
…om the Father to expound all things discreetly in these the last words that thou shalt hear before thou take thy seat among these, whose eyes are sealed up and whose ears are stopped, and whose mouths are clenched, who are folded in upon themselves, the liquor of whose bodies is dried up, so that nothing remains but a little pyramid of dust. And that bright light of comfort, and that piercing sword of truth, and all that power and beauty that they have made of themselves, is cast from them, as it is written, "I saw Satan like lightning fall fro…