Pointed Breast Star

Famous quotes containing the words pointed, breast and/or star:

    I heard the beat of centaur’s hoofs over the hard turf
    As his dry and passionate talk devoured the afternoon.
    “He is a charming man” “But after all what did he mean?”—
    “His pointed ears. ... He must be unbalanced,”—
    “There was something he said that I might have challenged.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    Now the nightingale, the pretty nightingale,
    The sweetest singer in all the forest’s choir,
    Entreats thee, sweet Peggy, to hear thy true Love’s tale:
    Lo! yonder she sitteth, her breast against a briar.
    Thomas Dekker (1572?–1632?)

    The obvious parallels between Star Wars and The Wizard of Oz have frequently been noted: in both there is the orphan hero who is raised on a farm by an aunt and uncle and yearns to escape to adventure. Obi-wan Kenobi resembles the Wizard; the loyal, plucky little robot R2D2 is Toto; C3PO is the Tin Man; and Chewbacca is the Cowardly Lion. Darth Vader replaces the Wicked Witch: this is a patriarchy rather than a matriarchy.
    Andrew Gordon, U.S. educator, critic. “The Inescapable Family in American Science Fiction and Fantasy Films,” Journal of Popular Film and Television (Summer 1992)