I suddenly remember being very little and being embraced by my father. I would try to put my arms around my father's waist, hug him back. I could never reach the whole way around the equator of his body; he was that much larger than life. Then one day, I could do it. I held him, instead of him holding me, and all I wanted at that moment was to have it back the other way.
The equator was wisely put where it is, because if it had been run through Europe all the kings would have tried to grab it.
There isn't a Parallel of Latitude but thinks it would have been the Equator if it had had its rights.
If the unicorn does live among the snows held up forever on the line of the Equator then it is clear why the world should know so little about them.
You can't be at the pole and the equator at the same time. You must choose your own line, as I hope to do, and it will probably be color.
Trapped on a planet of pain and perpetrators That you call 'Earth,' but I call 'Hell's Equator. '
There is an equator that runs just under the nose: all that live below the equator are animals; all that live above it are men.
The weight of his losses finally too much to bear. But not before he has known the unforgiving light of the equator, a love that exists only in his imagination, and the enduring struggle to capture in words the infinite possibilities of a life not lived.
