Sublime

He showed the white object under his arm, which was a tiny Maltese puppy, one of nature’s most naive toys. ‘It is painful to me to see these creatures that are bred merely as pets,’ said Dorothea, whose opinion was forming itself that very moment (as opinions will) under the heat of irritation.

Easily, he slept; and as he slept, the woman in the photograph took her arm from the pastor’s waist, and crossed the parched lawn towards the camera. Her black skirts, thickly beaded at the hem, obscured the view of Bethesda; then her fine and muddied boots came over the frame, and were first set squarely on the table, then one by one on the floor:

Now that Medea had named my loneliness, it hung from everything, clinging like spiderwebs, unavoidable.

it was obvious that unless she took care she would develop an unbecoming corpulence.

Skadhi was not a Goddess who could settle down. She did have an attempt at marriage, after she was tricked into thinking she was going to marry the most beautiful God and instead got the god of the sea, Njord.