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...mire of quotations becomes particularly difficult in the second half of the first chapter, "Fantasy and Diagnosis," which traces the early influences on Auden's poetry and should be one of the best sections of the book...
Colonel William E. Byrd, the colonial ancestor of Virginia's Senator Harry F. Byrd, named the place the Great Dismal Swamp. After trekking through the muck and mire with a band of hardy surveyors, Byrd emerged bug-bitten almost to death (the Dismal Swamp's yellow fly, they still say, will politely lift a man's hat from his head so as to get a better bite at his ears). The swamp, straddling the Virginia-North Carolina border, just across the James River Bay from Norfolk, was nothing better than a "filthy bogg," he wrote. Even birds...
...third quarter was a stalemate; in the fourth quarter, the Crimson got fired up. With captain Tony Davies barking signals, and fullback Lou Williams joining the attack, the Crimson put on a diehard press for the Penn goal. Four times the ball landed in the mire before the Penn goal, but Crimson players failed to dig it out in time...
...nasty drizzle beat down on muddy Alumni Field here, both sides struggled to control the ball in the ankle-deep mire. Cornell moved to the offensive and barely missed scoring several times in the first quarter. Crimson fullback Lou Williams repeatedly showed up in the nick of time to steal the ball and clear...
Sweat & Lust. "We, as human beings, are all miserable persons, heartless, small, insignificant," wrote Kazantzakis in his personal credo, The Saviors of God. "But within us a superior essence drives us ruthlessly upward. From within this human mire divine songs have welled up, great ideas, violent loves, an unsleeping assault full of mystery...