July 24, 6:03 A. M. The laundry was warm and the rafters were firm, and Michael Holzapfel jumped from the chair as if it were a cliff. . . Michael Holzapfel knew what he was doing. He killed himself for wanting to live.
And when it has got in; as one not finding what it seeks, whatever that may be, it wails and howls to issue forth again: and not content with stalking through the aisles, and gliding round and round the pillars, and tempting the deep organ, soars up to the roof, and strives to rend the rafters: then flings itself despairingly upon the stones below, and passes, muttering, into the vaults.
The government passed more laws to protect women from dirty jokes than to protect men from death by faulty rafters at a construction site.
It wasn't like the spare rooms of immigrants - packed to the rafters with all that they have ever possessed, no matter how defective or damaged, mountains of odds and ends - the stand testament to the fact that they have things now, where before they had nothing.
Delusions, errors and lies are like huge, gaudy vessels, the rafters of which are rotten and worm-eaten, and those who embark in them are fated to be shipwrecked.
Juliana?” the words were low and far—too calm for her husband, who had found that he rather enjoyed the full spectrum of emotion now that he had experienced it. “Yes?” “What are you doing twenty feet in the air?” “Looking for a book. ” “Would you mind very much returning to the earth?” “What are you thinking, climbing to the rafters in your condition?” “I am not an invalid, Simon, I still have use of all my extremes. ” “You do indeed—particularly your extreme ability to try my patience—I believe, however, that you mean extremities.
He killed himself for wanting to live.
Courtesy which oft is found in lowly sheds, with smoky rafters, than in tapestry halls and courts of princes, where it first was named.
The desires of the heart. . . are as crooked as a corkscrew.
