From a hasty glance through the various tests I figure it out that I would be classified in Group B, indicating "Low Average Abili...ty," reserved usually for those just learning to speak the English Language and preparing for a career of holding a spike while another man hits it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and d...own, and hits on extraordinary discoveries.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Gratitude is a fickle thing, indeed. A person taking aim presses the weapon to his chest and cheek, but when he hits, he discards ...it with indifference.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Folk art" signifies the poetical, musical, and pictorial activities of those strata of the population which are uneducated and no...t urbanized or industrialized. It is of the essence of this art that those who keep it in being are not only passively receptive, but normally are creative participants in the artistic activities, and yet do not stand out as individuals or claim any personal authorship of the productions. "Popular art" on the other hand is to be understood as artistic or quasi-artistic production for the demand of a half-educated public, generally urban and inclined to mass-behavior. In folk art, producers and consumers are hardly distinguished, and the boundary between them is always fluid; in the case of popular art, we find on the contrary an artistically uncreative, completely passive public, and professional production of artistic goods strictly in response to the demand for them. It is indeed a striking fact that folk art, especially folk-poetry, emerges from the ranks of those who enjoy it, whereas popular songs--the street ballads and popular "hits"Mderive from professionals belonging to and spir itually dependent upon the upper classes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If, for some reason, you want to feel completely out of step with the rest of the world, the only thing to do is sit around a cock...tail lounge in the afternoon.... You sit around the gloom and have a few quiet, meditative drinks, get everything figured out. Then you go out and the sun hits you. And you feel like something that's been drinking in a gopher hole.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Adolescence hits boys harder than it does girls. Girls bleed a little and their breasts pop out, big deal, but adolescence lands o...n a guy with both feet. . . . Your body is engulfed by chemicals of rage and despair, you pound, you shriek, you batter your head against the trees. You come away wounded, feeling that life is unknowable, can never be understood, only endured and sometimes cheated.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Wet century-wide trees Clash in surrounding starlessness above... This lamplit cave, where Jan turns back and farts, Gobs at the grate, and hits the queen of hearts. Rain, wind and fire! The secret, bestial peace!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is not [the toddler's] job yet to consider other people's feelings, he has to come to terms with his own first. If he hits you ...and you hit him back to "show him what it feels like," you will have given a lesson he is not ready to learn. He will wail as if hitting was a totally new idea to him. He makes no connections between what he did to you and what you then did to him; between your feelings and his own.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »