Word: ante
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...poker table is his ability to stay loose and observe his opponents keenly. No matter what the stakes, he keeps up an amiable chatter with other players. "Some of these guys play the games real uptight," he says; "it's so quiet you could hear an ant pee on cotton. But Ah like to shake 'em up, put a rattlesnake in their pocket and ask 'em for a match...
...sign his name to checks for unlimited amounts just for his own amusement or one who must sign his name to checks that will keep his company the best of its kind, large or small. It's the old story of the cicada who sings all summer and the ant who works all summer. The same old corn we have all heard during our childhood. But the old corn is true to life and the reason for the "moral" with which Aesop ended all his fables. There is a great deal more satisfaction in actually doing something than there...
...journey that he takes from his asteroid to the Sahara Desert, and of the adventures he has there and elsewhere on the earth. His book is laced with quaint illustrations (by Saint Exupery himself) of a coa constrictor swallowing an elephant, baobab trees devouring a planet, and ant hill sized volcanoes...
...live one-into his crib. As a boy, Woody was heavily burdened by the Judaeo-Christian tradition: "When we played softball, I'd steal second, then feel guilty and go back." He wanted a dog desperately, but there was no money. "So my parents got me an ant. I called it Spot...
...wrote that "everything 'dead' trembled Not only the stars, moon, woods, flowers of which the poets sing, but also a cigarette butt lying in the ashtray, a patient white trouser button looking up from a puddle in the street, a submissive bit of bark that an ant drags through the high grass in its strong jaws to uncertain but important destinations. Everything shows me its face, its innermost being, its secret soul, which is more often silent than heard...