P.57 When Dawn’s pink fingers peeped shyly on the eastern sky And politely plucked the eyelids of Telemachus, Odysseus’s son blinked sleep from his eyes, and Rose and quickly dressed, transferring the shoulder strap of his sharp sword across his broad chest, and p. 68 And as his voice lifted in prayer, Athene, now in … Continue reading The Odyssey – Homer
First Sentence 1801.—I have just returned from a visit to my landlord—the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with. p.47 He seemed a sullen, patient child; hardened, perhaps, to ill-treatment: he would stand Hindley’s blows without winking or shedding a tear, and my pinches moved him … Continue reading Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
p. 31 I SLEPT LATE and spent the tail of the morning reading over my own notes on Palace etiquette and the observations on Gethenian psychology and manners made by my predecessors, the Investigators. I didn’t take in what I read, which didn’t matter since I knew it by heart and was reading merely to … Continue reading The Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula K. Le Guin
P.22 “That would be no good,” said the wizard, “not without a mighty Warrior, even a Hero. I tried to find one; but warriors are busy fighting one another in distant lands, and in this neighbourhood heroes are scarce, or simply not to be found. Swords in these parts are mostly blunt, and axes are … Continue reading The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again – J.R.R. Tolkien
Universe of Dahee 