Natural Blood

Titles taken from the book, Natural Blood.

“And like the slain that lie in the grass, being fallen asleep, accidentally disclose that they had borne children whose eyes never opened I would possess a lesser place, and drive out the air, and fall upon the motion of those things, which being alive, do leap with violence to their former figure and vanish without speaking. I would come to that substance whose nature it is to move, whose limbs should start spasmodically from the flourish of a whip after having been subject to snapping motions which resemble the bitings of a dog. And if the animal sleeps with it eyes and mouth half open, some evolution of transformed nebulae will favour a certain range of resolving powers natural to animal bodies, and so arranged that the access to air is limited, only so much as to possess the living principle. A very small quantity of blood will preserve this harmony a great deal more. Latent sympathies are aroused, and the mind takes cognisance of them. And being so carefully fastened up with clusters of velvet ribbon it gives a sudden jerk, by which the heart is erected and raises itself up into a point, and strikes the chest with more than normal force.” Natural Blood.