The pine tree represented the God Attis, sleeping during the long winter nights and woken up by the Goddess Cybele in spring, for the celebration of springtide. |
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This autumn season is something more akin to late springtide in the brilliant career of Edna O'Brien, described by her American peer Philip Roth as the greatest living woman writing in English. |
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By Mary Mian The New Yorker, February 9, 1946P. 30 They met in springtide, when the earth View Article By Alan Burdick By Larissa MacFarquhar By Emily Nussbaum By Phil Klay. |
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Once stung, she wrote, you never lose the springtide wariness. |
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With a great heaving of the flesh, let us rise up like the shafts of wheat that our Creator hath lately seen fit to deny us, surely casting us into a famine from which only those with spotless souls will emerge at springtide. |
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