So what about that key?" I asked. "I knew you'd be asking me about it sooner or later. " He pulled the cord out from underneath his shirt and dangled the key in front of me. "What do you want for it?" I sneered. "Five dollars?" "I don't want money," he said with a wicked grin. "What does it go to?" "A kiss will unlock more than this key will," he whispered in my ear.
Hope is the denial of reality. It is the carrot dangled before the draft horse to keep him plodding along in a vain attempt to reach it. " "Are you saying we shouldn't hope?" "I'm saying we should remove the carrot and walk forward with our eyes open!
Life compulsively dangled the possibility of life. Life, the dramatist on speed. Life, that couldn't stop with its foreshadows and ironies and symbols and clues, its wretched jokes and false endings and twists. Life with its hopeless addiction to plot.
Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market; or the precipice.
I danced along a colored wind Dangled from a rope of sand