The sheer blue milken dreaminess spurting and shuddering
from the fourteen teats into the fourteen mouths sucking and blowing beneath them:
the long, perfect loveliness of sow.
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Saint Francis and the Sow (1986)Galway Kinnell
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When I was fourteen or fifteen […] the Yom Kippur service ended in an unforgettable way, for Schechter, who always put great effort into the blowing of the shofar—he would go red in the face with exertion—produced a long, seemingly endless note of unearthly beauty, and then dropped dead before us on the bema, the raised platform where he would sing. I had the feeling that God had killed Schechter, sent a thunderbolt, stricken him. The shock of this for everyone was tempered by the reflection that if there was ever a moment in which a soul was pure, forgiven, relieved of all sin, it was at this moment, when the shofar was blown in conclusion of the fast […].
Oliver Sacks
Laila (at fourteen years): What would your mother say when she saw you smoke?
Khaled Hosseini
Mr. Wilson bores me with his Fourteen Points; why, God Almighty has only Ten!
Georges Clemenceau
I want you to turn to the fourteen-year-old girl next to you and mosh her training bra off!
Killswitch Engage
God, from whose territory I had withdrawn my ambassadors at the age of fourteen. It had become obvious that he was never going to do a thing I said.
Quentin Crisp
Kinnell, Galway
Kinnersley, Ebenezer
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