 | Francis Fisher Browne - American literature - 1924 - 666 pages
...the cold beyond its company"; and dumps of gold and silver ore enclosing The Goat's Mirror— that lady-fingerlike depression in the shape of the left human foot, which prejudices you in favour of itself before you have had time to see the others; its indigo, pea-green, blue-green, and... | |
 | Robin G. Schulze - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 270 pages
...the goat in "stag-at-bay" position, and the part of the glacier called "The Goat's Mirror — / that lady-fingerlike depression in the shape of the left human foot, / which prejudices you in favour of itself." Like the Goat's Mirror, each subsequent summit view of the goat image invites the... | |
 | Bonnie Costello - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 252 pages
..."Goat's Mirror . . . that lady/ingerlike depression in the shape of the left human foot" (italics mine) "prejudices you in favor of itself before you have had time to see the others." The maps we make send us in circles: "Completing a circle, you have been deceived into thinking you... | |
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... hung to filter, not to intercept the sunlight" — met by tightly wattled spruce twigs "conformed to an edge like clipped cypress as if no branch could penetrate the cold beyond its company"; and dumps of gold and silver ore enclosing The Goat's Mirror... 