Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...your fair flesh, to be cut off and taken...
...cliché until examination proves it something less than that-an untruth. Surely if Flood has any solid theme, it is that the physical shape of a loved object-in this case, Fiddlersburg-is important, that its loss is irrevocable, and that the spirit cannot make do without the flesh. In an understanding of this lies one of the differences between tragedy and sentimental melodrama...
Dahlberg, Because I was Flesh...
Hartmann rushed forward and grasped the General's left arm. Simultaneously, he felt the muscular flesh beneath his fingers grow taut as a steel cable. Tanz's arm jerked one way and then the other, throwing him off balance. Hartmann staggered back, his childlike eyes filled with astonished incomprehension...
Great lovers lie in Hell, the stubborn ones Infatuate of the flesh upon the bones; Stuprate, they rend each other when they kiss, The pieces kiss again, no end to this ... Equilibrists lie here; stranger, tread light; Close, but untouching in each other's sight; Mouldered the lips and ashy the tall skull. Let them lie perilous and beautiful. Full of tart paradox and sweet passion, Ransom is himself a poetic equilibrist of rare skill. Girded against sentiment with irony, against dullness with wit and cerebral learning, he yet manages to convey the flavor of an innocent past when...