You have been here only a short time, Mr. Barnard. You cannot know what it is to live here month upon month, year after year, brea...thing this infernal air, absorbing the miasma of barbarity that permeates these walls, especially this chamber.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We deny your internationalism, because it is a luxury which only the upper classes can afford; the working people are hopelessly b...ound to their native shores.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My weary limbs are scarcely stretched for repose, before red dawn peeps into my chamber window, and the birds in the whispering le...aves over the roof, apprise me by their sweetest notes that another day of toil awaits me. I arise, the harness is hastily adjusted and once more I step upon the tread-mill.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All stars stand close in summer air And tremble, and look mild as amber;... When wicks are lighted in the chamber You might say stars were settling there.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A plane is a bad place for an all-out sleep, but a good place to begin rest and recovery from the trip to the faraway places you'v...e been, a decompression chamber between Here and There. Though a plane is not the ideal place really to think, to reassess or reevaluate things, it is a great place to have the illusion of doing so, and often the illusion will suffice.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Though of erect nature, man is far above the plants. For man's superior part, his head, is turned toward the superior part of the ...world, and his inferior part is turned toward the inferior world; and therefore he is perfectly disposed as to the general situation of his body. Plants have the superior part turned towards the lower world, since their roots correspond to the mouth, and their inferior parts towards the upper world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One has often wondered whether upon the whole earth there is anything so unintelligent, so unapt to perceive how the world is real...ly going, as an ordinary young Englishman of our upper class.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »