Word: stallions
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...passionate eloquence of St. Augustine (whom Mumford compares to "the wild eye and the snorting nostril of the stallion in heat") "degenerated" through the ages into the logical but lifeless dida tics of Descartes, Spinoza, Locke...
...Allies put a price on his head, charged him with "not having said Mass for six years, of blaspheming, of not wearing long robes ... of fornication with his mustachioed old housekeeper." He disappeared for a year, reappeared briefly in Rome on a prancing white stallion to cast his vote in the election of Pope Innocent XIII. By then he was almost forgotten by the warring powers. At the age of 88, Alberoni died, leaving behind him a seminary for the education of indigent student priests, a plan for the federation of Europe...
...decaying Tennessee mansion, three women brooded in their porch chairs. Crazy Grandma Lewis mumbled to an imaginary visitor that her father was away "in the service of the Confederacy." Spinster Aunt Willy dreamed about her chestnut stallion-the only creature she could bring herself to love. Cousin Daphne (her bridegroom had abandoned her on their wedding night when he found she had no money) toyed with the more poisonous specimens of her beloved collection of rare mushrooms. Suddenly the rank growth that ringed the old house parted and Granddaughter Catherine Lewis Chapman stumbled onto the porch. Her husband had been...
...time in bed, gloomily waiting for the day when the Lewises would throw him out. "It's all dead wood," snapped crazy Grandma, of her household. "Somebody ought to come along with an ax. . . ." But Catherine believed that two living things remained: Aunt Willy's stallion, and a vigorous neighboring farmer named Tom Manigault. Life began again for her when the stallion won first prize at the State Fair, and the farmer became Catherine's lover (they planned to marry after her divorce). Life ended again when the stallion was accidentally electrocuted, when her washed...
...half-truth. The couplings of mule and mule are fruitless (the genetic grounds: incompatibility of chromosomes). But as in the case of Farmer Vermaak's sport, a mule mare now & then carries her own dam's chromosomes-and once in some 200,000 encounters meets the stallion that has her (germ-cell) number...