from H is for hawk by Helen Macdonald
Human hands are for holding other hands. Human hands are for holding other humans close.
2 September 2017
from H is for hawk by Helen Macdonald
Looking for goshawks is like looking for grace.
25 August 2017
from Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett
a key to the understanding of all religions is that a god’s idea of amusement is Snakes and Ladders with greased rungs. Wyrd Sisters
17 August 2017
from Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Houses, like people, are apt to become rather eccentric if left too much on their own
21 July 2017
from Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Naturally he was eager to re-establish himself as Emperor, but it was not yet known where he would chuse to be Emperor of. Susanna Clarke – Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
21 July 2017
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
County gentleman who read in their newspapers the speeches of this or that Minister would mutter to themselves that he was certainly a clever fellow. But the county gentlemen were not...
7 July 2017
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Mr Norrell (who knew there were such things as jokes in the world or people would not write about them in books, but who had never actually been introduced to a...
5 July 2017
The serpent and the goddess by Mary Condren
Women, therefore, had no input into a theology that gave so much importance to the male seed, and that led to a situation where masturbation or oral sex, performed between two...
2 July 2017
The serpent and the goddess by Mary Condren
Fergus’s fertility was so renowned that his name itself has been translated as “male ejaculation son of super stallion”. His virility was such that seven fists fit in his penis and...
26 June 2017
The Serpent and the goddess by Mary Condren
the word man … can encompass women, although the converse is not true and the word woman can never stand for the general but only for the particular. Condren, Mary. (1989)...
26 June 2017
The Serpent and the Goddess by Mary Condren
History is not the objective science it was once thought to be but a particular form of power and knowledge, involving the manipulation of academic and political resources and serving to...
26 June 2017