"And I caught my double-header; the next day I landed a twenty-five pound kingfish on a twelve-pound line, bloody to the elbows and cut to the bone by the handline. The fish would pant and suffer in the sack because we had to keep them alive and so fresh. On such hecatombs is human superiority nourished." - 'Abortion III', Germaine Greer in Spare Rib, 1972.
"'Though I believe it was their intention to ... do the thing handsomely, with a hecatomb among their livestock; only their sheep died, their fowls had the pip...'"
--O'Brian, The Truelove, 85
Famously used in Ten Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.
"And I caught my double-header; the next day I landed a twenty-five pound kingfish on a twelve-pound line, bloody to the elbows and cut to the bone by the handline. The fish would pant and suffer in the sack because we had to keep them alive and so fresh. On such hecatombs is human superiority nourished."
- 'Abortion III', Germaine Greer in Spare Rib, 1972.
"'Though I believe it was their intention to ... do the thing handsomely, with a hecatomb among their livestock; only their sheep died, their fowls had the pip...'"
--O'Brian, The Truelove, 85
Whole hecatombs ought to be offered up to the manes of my Clarissa Lovelace.
Lovelace to Belford, Clarissa by Samuel Richardson