Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance--nothing more. But to lose oneself in a... city--as one loses oneself in a forest--that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At the ramparts on the cliff near the old Parliament House I counted twenty-four thirty-two-pounders in a row, pointed over the ha...rbor, with their balls piled pyramid-wise between them,--there are said to be in all about one hundred and eighty guns mounted at Quebec,--all which were faithfully kept dusted by officials, in accordance with the motto, "In time of peace prepare for war"; but I saw no preparations for peace: she was plainly an uninvited guest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You have to be nice and congenial and enthusiastic. What makes that so difficult is you have to be nice, congenial, and enthusiast...ic three hundred and sixty-five days in a row!... You can't have a day off.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
all afternoon Their witless offspring flock like piped rats to its siren... Crescendo, and agape on the crumbling ridge Stand in a row and learn.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »