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quicken (kwîk´en)
verb
quickened, quickening, quickens
verb, transitive
1. To make more rapid; accelerate.
2. To make alive; vitalize.
3. To excite and stimulate;
stir.
4. To make steeper.
verb, intransitive
1. To become more rapid.
2. To come or return to
life: "And the weak spirit quickens" (T.S. Eliot).
3. To reach the stage of
pregnancy when the fetus can be felt to move.
- quick´ener noun
Adventure
And yet a little tumult,
now and then, is an agreeable quickener of sensation; such as a revolution,
a battle, or an adventure of any lively description.
Lord Byron (1788-1824),
English poet. Byron's Letters and Journals, vol. 3 (ed. by Leslie A. Marchand,
1973-81), entry for 22 Nov. 1813.
Books
Books are the bees
which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
James Russell Lowell (1819-91), U.S. poet, editor.
_Nationality in Literature_, in North American Review (July 1849), reviewing
Longfellow's Kavanagh.
Teachers
The true teacher defends
his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust.
He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will
have no disciple.
A. Bronson Alcott (1799-1888),
U.S. educator, social reformer. Orphic Sayings, "The Teacher" (1840).
immortals
await for the "gathering" and feels the "quickening". Christopher
Lambert, a French New Yorker, plays Connor McLeod, a Scot. Ramirez,
played by Scottish Sean Connery, is a Spaniard wielding a samurai sword.
his origins are said to be Egyptian.
each immortal seeks the "prize". the "prize" turns out to be knowledge
of all things past present and future.SingularityOmega
Point
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track _The Quickening_ by Gumbo (Simon
Posford) off of _Project II Trance_
compilation on Dragonfly
(1994)
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