Lines Taken Out of Context #10

Marley's face. It was not in impenetrable shadow as the other objects in the yard were, but had a dismal light about it, like a bad lobster in a dark cellar.

Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

Lines Taken Out of Context #9

A single grain of gimlet-dust, for example, would have been as obvious as an apple.

Edgar Allen Poe, "The Purloined Letter"

Lines Taken Out of Context #8

It is the celestial ennui of apartments

Wallace Stevens, from "Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction"

Lines Taken Out of Context #7

One angel no doubt can stand quite comfortably on the point of a pin, but when a whole battalion of angels attempt to occupy this identical space there is war in heaven.

Van Wyck Brooks, America’s Coming-of-Age, from the chapter “Our Poets” (1915)

Lines Taken Out of Context #6, Aphorisms #4

All men dream: but not equally.

T.E. Lawrence, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom

Manhattan #10, Lines Taken Out of Context #5

New York is gradually, year by year, becoming the home of the very rich and the very poor.

New York Herald (April 19, 1877)

Alliteration #1, Lines Taken Out of Context #4, Shakespeare #2

When to the Sessions of sweet silent thought

William Shakespeare, Sonnet XXX

Lines Taken Out of Context #3, Mathematics #1

Is he not the celebrated author of The Dynamics of an Asteroid, a book which ascends to such rarified heights of pure mathematics that it is said that there was no man in the scientific press capable of criticizing it?

Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear

Lines Taken Out of Context #2

G.T.O.: Those satisfactions are permanent.

Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) d: Monte Hellman sc: Rudy Wurlitzer, Will Corry

Lines Taken Out of Context #1

De vrais oiseaux.

La Jetée (1962) d: Chris Marker