Samuel Butler (novelist) Quote

The body is but a pair of pincers set over a bellows and a stewpan and the whole fixed upon stilts.


The Note-books of Samuel Butler, Chapter I (p. 18)


The body is but a pair of pincers set over a bellows and a stewpan and the whole fixed upon stilts.

The body is but a pair of pincers set over a bellows and a stewpan and the whole fixed upon stilts.

The body is but a pair of pincers set over a bellows and a stewpan and the whole fixed upon stilts.

The body is but a pair of pincers set over a bellows and a stewpan and the whole fixed upon stilts.