My memory of the directions are hazy: I think there was a warning that one might have a facial flush or headaches or drop dead of a heart attack; that you were to take a pill at least an hour before you planned to get lucky, and, as zero hour approached, you were supposed to help things along by thinking beautiful thoughts, kind of like Peter Pan teaching Wendy and the boys how to fly.
The pair had met in Bradford; Sybil was "passionately religious, with a strong social conscience and robust health... a big, handsome (some thought beautiful) woman with auburn hair".
"He could think more deeply than others, and he could put his thoughts into beautiful transparent prose," he said.
Two thousand four hundred diverse ideas, a myriad of the thought-provoking, beautiful and the plain bonkers.
Tall, lanky and baby-faced, with a scraggly beard, Mr. Demain has a dream of returning to college and studying philosophy, a subject, he says, he fell in love with during his one year at College of Lake County in Illinois: "It's the study of thought; how beautiful is that?" His hope is to one day become a professor.
It's unusual to have the thoughts of a beautiful person, because most of them are just happy to be beautiful, and they don't have to bother with writing.
"How powerful could it be to open your eyes and see beautiful thoughts so many others see on you every day," she thought — and she was right.
But I'm sure I think more beautiful thoughts.
The Constant Reader reviews "Forty Thousand Sublime and Beautiful Thoughts" edited by Charles Noel Douglas.
But you know how it is: It's hard to think beautiful thoughts when you're wondering, "Is it happening?
