We live in the great indoors: the vacuum cleaner grazes over the carpet, lowing, its udder a swollen wobble. SeeAusten 43:88.

-Raine, Craig Anthony
  'An Inquiry intoTwo Inches of Ivory'.

You see how when rivers are swollen in winter those trees that yield to the flood retain their branches, but those that offer resistance perish, trunk and all.

-Sophocles
Haemon speaking. Antigone,712^14 (translated by H Lloyd- Jones,1994).