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I was born with my eyes turned inward.
With a sort of mental squint.
You never know a line is crooked unless you have a straight one to put next to it.
If I have viewed them from a certain angle, it is because, seen from there, that is how they looked
which may be due to prismatic distortion, but which is therefore what they also are, though unaware of being it.
To crooked eyes truth may wear a wry face
I'm Irish. We think sideways
If in all ideology men and their circumstances appear upside-down as in a camera obscura, this phenomenon arises just as much from their historical life-process as the inversion of objects on the retina does from the physical life-process.
his way across the slanted roof over the
Clockwise is sunwise - as opposed to 'widdershins', which witches use.
Tis looking downward makes one dizzy.
Italics provide a wonderful advantage: you see, right away, that the words are in a rush. When something exists at a slant, you can't help but consider irony.
They were curved together like quotation marks with no words in between.
the wrinkled sleeve of the head
The bent but unbroken ones.
Life is squinchy.
Things that are back to front are often easier to comprehend if they are upside down as well. In life as in politics.
Your hair looks funny," Lief said, as soon as the Ugloids left. "It stands straight up!"
No," said Nick, intensely irritated, "It's hanging straight down."
Lief just gave him an upside-down shrug. "Up is down in China and you're part-Chinese.
[A] person whose head is bowed and whose eyes are heavy cannot look at the light.
God draws straight with crooked lines.
What would a chair look like if your knees bent the other way?
Everybody's crooked. The trick is to find out how they're bent.
In an upside down world, with all the rules being rewritten as the game goes on and spectators invading the pitch, it is good to feel that some things and some people seem to stay just as they were.
If I were to open a corner store, I'd call it 90 Degrees.
turned it over. "Your
God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.
Sometimes you have to turn the world upside down to see it right side up.
Then comes the left jab again. A converted southpaw? It has something of the shift of locus which comes from making love to a brunette when she is wearing a blond wig.
Off the tilting world like thread off a
God draweth straight lines but we call them crooked.
The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.
How can you break that which bends?
Mountain-climbing cars are built on a slant similar to the angle of a hat-brim of a man who doesn't want to be recognized.
I can't get it wrong.
Buffeted but not broken.
Anything vertical will eventually be horizontal.
Bend and you will be straight.
Portrait The world spreads out on either side no farther than the heart is wide.
You bent my words again," says Goto Dengo. "You spoke crooked words and I straightened them,
dimmed completely.
My funny old brain, like those of many poets, has always done its best work sideways, seeking out tricky enjambments and surprising slant rhymes to craft lines capable of pulling their own weight.
The angles even
Draw strength from gazing on its glance,
Though none its meaning fathom may;
The world's unwither'd countenance
Is bright as at creation's day.
Think Upside Down Live Rightside Up
glared an upset glare
O Josephine, face more than irregular, you would be charming were you not all askew. You have the air of a pretty face upon which some one has sat down by mistake.
Tatted like a Mexican, fresher than a freshman.
A ruler isn't always straight.
The painting also pinpointed an important quirk of Washington's face: the lazy right eye that slid off into the corner while the left eye stared straight ahead. To prepare for the equestrian
I was made at right angles to the world
and I see it so. I can only see it so.
Everyone was like the faces on a playing card, upside down either way.
I like the slants of light; I'm a collector.
I write as straight as I can, just as I walk as straight as I can, because that is the best way to get there.
We may divide characters into flat and round.
For experience teacheth me that straight trees have crooked roots.
The camera points both ways. In expressing the subject you also express yourself ...
But there was in the air that kind of distortion that bent you a little; it caused your usual self to grow slippery, to wander off and shop, to get blurry, bleed, bevel with possibility.
But I would rather be horizontal. I am not a tree with my root in the soil. Sucking up minerals and motherly love. So that each March I may gleam into leaf.
the Portuguese adage holds true: God writes straight on crooked lines.
at Terrible. The third-rate 74 did indeed appear badly worn, her masts slanted from
Let's say something happens, and from a certain slant maybe it's tragic, even a little bit shocking. Then time passes and you go to the funny slant, and now that very same thing can no longer do you any harm.
Another of the older views, and they are simply read out
Over hill and under hill
A broken heart is a whole heart. A leaning ladder is a straight ladder.
My head is turned by every eye
The more angles I see, the more confused I get.
I do like to turn a phrase, but it's all about how you turn it.
The pair of legs that carried him were rickety, and there was a bias in his gait which inclined him somewhat to the left of a straight line.
Well fuck me sideways 'til I cry
What a curious shape you are! May I ask were you born like that, or is it the result of an accident?" "It
iconoclastically.
I saw her note the way I hovered over the various ethnicities on the form. First the 'white' box, then to the airspace over the 'black' box, a kind of momentary hesitation, a protest of stillness, a staring into the abyss of everything I did not know about myself. She, like me, was made of halves.
What's your angle?" I asked, trying to sound more playful than demanding.
"Isosceles," Jack quipped.
If you're born round, you don't come out square
A poem should be odd as a small cast-iron platypus.
From a distance it might look straight, but when you get close up, you can always see the line waver. And I think that's where the beauty is.
And I twisted it wrong just to make it right
Had to leave myself behind
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
As the tree is bent, so it will grow.
Queer. And not in the way I like.
If the first button of one's coat is wrongly buttoned, all the rest will be crooked.
the flip side of the paper." Quaere enim avis replaced the image on the screen, handwritten in blue ink.
I was bent on love the way a crow is bent on a flattened squirrel.
Perched on top of the pointed nose of the
It looks like a parallelogram fucking an isosceles triangle, I said.
Some are bent with toil, and some get crooked trying to avoid it.
Crooked is the path to eternity.
Thanks to the oval I have discovered the meaning of the horizontal and the vertical.
Noblest minds are easiest bent.
If you are given lined paper, write crosswise. At least occassionally.
No sane creator, setting out from scratch to design a flat-fish, would have conceived on his drawing board the absurd distortion of the head needed to bring both eyes round to one side.
As deformed as a grotesque potato,
Simple, like uncarved wood.
A comedian sees the world bent. I'm tangent to the circle.
I like to turn things upside down, to watch pictures and situations from another perspective.
It should look as if it has always been like that, as if Nature had made it that way.
That's good design.
So rainbow-sided, touch'd with miseries,
She seem'd, at once, some penanced lady elf,
Some demon's mistress, or the demon's self.
How you look at it is pretty much how you'll see it
But when I took up my pen, my hand made big, jerky letters like those of a child, and the lines sloped down the page from left to right horizontally, as if they were loops of string lying on the paper, and someone had come along and blown them askew.
the parking lot out there, the right and left are reversed.
Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards?
You know the expression 'As a crow flies,' don't you? People use it to mean a straight line. And that's very important. Because the way a capital-c Crow flies is a straight line. It may appear jagged to some, but the Crow flies in a straight line to its goal.