Word: virgines
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...ignorance, your intermittent famine. There was little interracial sensitivity. Trees seemed to have lacked leaves altogether, and you could never get the muck off your shoes, even indoors. Kings were greedy and whined a lot. At the first sign of trouble, they threw up their hands and sacrificed a virgin or two. The peasants, weakened by long hours of hunting for roots and small rodents, mustered little culture of their own, preferring to spend their weekends puttering around the hovel and swearing. Everyone was embarassingly short...
...ambivalent about clambering down into murky caves and facing off against the 50-foot lizard who has just torched the whole kingdom with a few sneezes. As a lover, he is tepid at best, remaining oblivious even when his ladyfriend mentions at one point that she's still a virgin, and the dragon only eats virgins, and isn't there something they could do about that...
...goblins are revealed as babies, but in the author's view this makes them no less terrifying: What could be more incessant and demanding than an infant? At each turn, Sendak provides illustrations that refer to-and bear comparison, with-the putti of Raphael, Da Vinci's Virgin of the Rocks and the entire school of German Romanticism. The sprung rhythms of the text and the richly allusive paintings do not make Outside Over There inappropriate for children. Even the very young can appreciate the work on its outer level. But only adults can wholly understand a work...
...Edith's protégé-like the young Dylan Thomas or the expatriate Russian painter Pavel Tchelitchew, whom she loved for 30 years with all her virgin heart -was to become the object of an awesome and sometimes smothering loyalty, feudal in its fierceness...
...loves his country, but he doesn't fully comprehend the war-especially when confronted with the possibility of his own execution. Wyse captures Leslie's confusion and terror without forcing the pathos of his plight Holley Stewart makes Teresa a complex and full blooded variation on the ancient virgin-where theme...