Their wool is soft, but their hooves, sharpened by life on jagged mountainsides, cut like razors through the delicate soil.
He still has Bellevue on the brain and frets over the success of any priest who will follow him and a century-long line of Carmelites along life's jagged peaks at the hospital.
In this bowdlerized version, Kirk, who illustrated "Bigger" and Chugga-Chugga Choo-Choo," has so smoothed out life's jagged edges, it's not surprising that he decided to paint his characters flat.
While he may have made his way into the 1%, he's not merely speculating on life's jagged edges; he's lived them, so he has considerably more authority to address the polity honestly.
Using Millay home movies and quoting from her most famous poems, this 1968 documentary by Kevin Brownlow and Sloane Shelton wanders about the 700-acre Berkshires farm, where Millay, a "jagged small mountain of life," as she described herself, lived and worked from 1923 until her death in 1950.
YET her cause, painful as it is, has already repaired the jagged ends of her fractured life.
Instead, it reminds the reader that jagged lines are inevitable; every life has its share of pain and loss, whether there's a mental health diagnosis involved or not.
The best way to read Paley's fiction is still by way of the "Collected Stories," where they echo and amplify and sometimes undercut one another, growing, like life, more complex and jagged with time.
THE mind wraps itself around losing a job, one of life's great traumas, in jagged and swerving fits.
They begin their life like most other rocks, jagged shards of material somehow sheared away from the Earth's crust by the movement of tectonic plates or by erosion.
