Word: kahlil
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...called The Bell Jar, which was shocking to her and difficult to understand, and when she returned it, asking for another, the librarian said that as far as she knew The Bell Jar was the only serious book about grieving women the library had." Instead, Betsy finds solace in Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet...
...posited that all of human knowledge has been fed into Proteus, but it seems to be fixated on two authors. One is Sade. How else explain the frequency with which it contrives to place its loved one in variously humiliating bondage scenes? The other is surely Kahlil Gibran, from whom it has obviously borrowed its sententious prose style. In the end, Proteus manages to get itself destroyed-too big for its breeches as it were. But not before it effects a kind of reincarnation: the child Christie conceives looks exactly like the one she lost to cancer. There are enough...
...brace of former lovers (male), flies West to work on her film, and there finds the vacant, curiously dippy Josh, a 27-year-old aspiring screenwriter who is to be the love of her life. For now, anyway, Isadora composes lines to him that read like hard-core Kahlil Gibran: "My soul is mine;/ My mouth belongs...
...seized by a fit of automatic writing while staring at herself in a three-way mirror, she turns out a surreal prose poem called Lady Oracle that becomes a bestseller. Sudden celebrity as the author of Lady Oracle -which publishers promote as an irresistible blend of Rod McKuen and Kahlil Gibran-brings a blackmailer into Joan's life. Rather than face exposure of her multiple lives, Joan plans a fake accidental death by drowning. Thereafter, she hopes to resurface in a new life -one that will be "neat and simple, understated, even a little severe, like a Quaker church...
...years in prison for conspiracy to commit burglary, income tax evasion, obstruction of justice, and contempt of Congress, tells an anxious nation how he plans to spend his time in jail. "I really don't know. Maybe I'll smoke a little dope, listen to some Allman Brothers, read Kahlil Gibran," the ex-president muses...