unwish

Progress is a comfortable disease: your victim (death and life safely beyond) plays with the bigness of his littleness — electrons deify one razorblade into a mountainrange; lenses extend unwish through curving wherewhen till unwish returns on its unself.

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Progress is a comfortable disease: your victim (death and life safely beyond) plays with the bigness of his littleness — electrons deify one razorblade into a mountainrange; lenses extend unwish through curving wherewhen till unwish returns on its unself.

Him – e.e. cummings + Fibonacci 2005

But the most tedious being is that which can unwish itself, content to be nothing, or never to have been, which was beyond the malcontent of Job, who cursed not the day of his life, but his nativity; content to have so far been, as to have a title to future being, although he had lived here but in an hidden state of life, and as it were an abortion.

Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial 2007

For example, ee cummings wrote "lenses extend unwish into curving wherewhen until unwish returns on its unself".

The Sense of Wonder 1995

It's plain enough that some one wished those papers on me, intending to unwish them in short order once we got across.

The Firefly of France Marion Polk Angellotti 1936

His chief reaction was not repentance nor dramatic interest, but a vexed longing to unwish the whole affair.

The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life Sinclair Lewis 1918

This one shall balance all I've broken, for I'll never unwish it. '

The Seats of the Mighty, Complete Gilbert Parker 1897

'Never was a more absurd wish,' said Charles, tormenting her hand still more, and pulling her curls; 'unwish it forthwith.

The Heir of Redclyffe Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

But the most tedious being is that which can unwish itself, content to be nothing, or never to have been, which was beyond the malcontent of Job, who cursed not the day of his life, but his nativity; content to have so far been, as to have a title to future being, although he had lived here but in an hidden state of life, and as it were an abortion.

Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend 1643

-- electrons deify one razorblade into a mountainrange; lenses extend unwish through curving wherewhen till unwish returns on its unself.

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