It would have needed a very stalwart young woman in 1828 to disregard all those snubs and chidings and promises of prizes. One must have been something of a firebrand to say to oneself, Oh, but they can't buy literature too. Literature is open to everybody. I refuse to allow you, Beadle though you are, to turn me off the grass. Lock up your ( Read more... )

"eve’s mouth hurts from trying not to laugh
at some joke some scholar made
about her being someone’s half.
it was a joke, a lie, exaggeration, a fib.
and now you all believe i came from his rib.

she screams at the top of her lungs:
"i’m whole! i’m body, i’m heart, i’m mind, i’m soul."

"i'll tell you what i think. i think the sages are the growing tip of the secret impulse of evolution. i think they are the leading edge of the self-transcending drive that always goes beyond what went before. i think they embody the very drive of the kosmos toward greater depth and expanding consciousness. i think they are riding the edge of a ( Read more... )