This will make widows wince. But fictive things
Wink as they will. Wink most when widows wince.
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"A High-Toned Old Christian Woman" (1922)Wallace Stevens
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A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
Samuel Johnson
When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.
Norman Mailer
I refuse to play the wink-wink-nudge-nudge game with readers. I don’t like whimsy because it doesn’t treat the fantastic seriously, and treating the fantastic seriously is one of the best ways of celebrating dialectical human consciousness there is. The one-sided celebration of the ego-driven contextually constrained instrumentally rational (as opposed to rational in a broader sense) is bureaucratic: the one-sided celebration of the subconscious, desire/fantasy driven is at best utopian, at worst sociopathic. The best fantasies—which include sf and horror—are constructed with a careful dialectic between conscious and subconscious.
China Mieville
Justice may wink a while, but see at last.
Thomas Middleton
Without a wink of sleep.
Miguel de Cervantes
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