There is no way of conveying to the corpse the reasons you have made him one--you have the corpse, and you are, thereafter, at the... mercy of a fact which missed the truth, which means that the corpse has you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In his latest article (Feb. 1892) Prof. Garner says that the chatter of monkeys is not meaningless but that they are conveying ide...as to one another. This seems to me hazardous. The monkeys might with equal justice conclude that in our magazine articles or literary criticisms, we are not chattering idly but are conveying ideas to one another.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The style, which is something I take to heart, is getting on my nerves horribly. It frustrates and torments me. I have days when I... am sick about it and nights when it gives me a fever. The more I go at it the more I find myself incapable of conveying the Idea.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Young children constantly invent new explanations to account for complex processes. And since their inventions change from week to... week, furnishing the "correct" explanation is not quite so important as conveying a willingness to discuss the subject. Become an "askable parent."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If, sir, I possessed ... the power of conveying unlimited sexual attraction through the potency of my voice, I would not be reduce...d to accepting a miserable pittance from the BBC for interviewing a faded female in a damp basement.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the very midst of the crowd about this wreck, there were men with carts busily collecting the seaweed which the storm had cast ...up, and conveying it beyond the reach of the tide, though they were often obliged to separate fragments of clothing from it, and they might at any moment have found a human body under it. Drown who might, they did not forget that this weed was a valuable manure. This shipwreck had not produced a visible vibration in the fabric of society.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Charleston, New Orleans, and the rest, are the names of wharves projecting into the sea (surrounde...d by the shops and dwellings of the merchants), good places to take in and to discharge a cargo (to land the products of other climes and load the exports of our own). I see a great many barrels and fig-drums,--piles of wood for umbrella- sticks,--blocks of granite and ice,--great heaps of goods, and the means of packing and conveying them,--much wrapping-paper and twine,--many crates and hogsheads and trucks,--and that is Boston. The more barrels, the more Boston. The museums and scientific societies and libraries are accidental. They gather around the sands to save carting.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »