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Part One He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish. In the first forty days a boy had been with him. But after forty days without a fish the boys parents had told him t
When the old man saw him coming he knew that this was a shark that had no fear at all and would do exactly what he wished. He prepared the harpoon and made the rope fast while he watched the shark come on. The rope was short as it lacked what he had
Part Two I would like to take the great DiMaggio fishing, the old man said. They say his father was a fisherman. Maybe he was as poor as we are and would understand. The great Sislers father was never poor and he, the father, was playing in the Big L
In the low-ceilinged canteen, deep underground, the lunch queue jerked slowly forward. The room was already very full and deafeningly noisy. From the grille at the counter the steam of stew came pouring forth, with a sour metallic smell which did not
In fact Ill go further and say that I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because its easier, isnt it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it. Is this annoying you? I bet it is
Winston was gelatinous with fatigue. Gelatinous was the right word. It had come into his head spontaneously. His body seemed to have not only the weakness of a jelly, but its translucency. He felt that if he held up his hand he would be able to see t
Syme had vanished. A morning came, and he was missing from work: a few thoughtless people commented on his absence. On the next day nobody mentioned him. On the third day Winston went into the vestibule of the Records Department to look at the notice
Winston looked round the shabby little room above Mr Charringtons shop. Beside the window the enormous bed was made up, with ragged blankets and a coverless bolster. The old-fashioned clock with the twelve-hour face was ticking away on the mantelpiec
Chapter 17 - Anatole sets off Anatole went out of the room and returned a few minutes later wearing a fur coat girt with a silver belt, and a sable cap jauntily set on one side and very becoming to his handsome face. Having looked in a mirror, and st
Chapter 13 - Nikolai and Ilyn ride to Boguchrovo On the seventeenth of August Rostov and Ilyin, accompanied by Lavrushka who had just returned from captivity and by an hussar orderly, left their quarters at Yankovo, ten miles from Bogucharovo, and we
Chapter 4 - The Council of War The Council of War began to assemble at two in the afternoon in the better and roomier part of Andrey Savostyanovs hut. The men, women, and children of the large peasant family crowded into the back room across the pass
EMMA Volume Three by Jane Austen CHAPTER IV A very few days had passed after this adventure, when Harriet came one morning to Emma with a small parcel in her hand, and after sitting down and hesitating, thus began: Miss Woodhouseif you are at leisure
It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis Chapter 9 Those who have never been on the inside in the Councils of State can never realize that with really high-class Statesmen, their chief quality is not political canniness, but a big, rich, overflowing Lo
It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis Chapter 11 When I was a kid, one time I had an old-maid teacher that used to tell me, Buzz, you're the thickest-headed dunce in school. But I noticed that she told me this a whole lot oftener than she used to te
It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis Chapter 12 I shall not be content till this country can produce every single thing we need, even coffee, cocoa, and rubber, and so keep all our dollars at home. If we can do this and at the same time work up tou
It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis Chapter 22 December tenth was the birthday of Berzelius Windrip, though in his earlier days as a politician, before he fruitfully realized that lies sometimes get printed and unjustly remembered against you, he
It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis Chapter 20 The real trouble with the Jews is that they are cruel. Anybody with a knowledge of history knows how they tortured poor debtors in secret catacombs, all through the Middle Ages. Whereas the Nordic is
It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis Chapter 32 Dr. Lionel Adams, B.A. of Yale, Ph.D. of Chicago, Negro, had been a journalist, American consul in Africa and, at the time of Berzelius Windrip's election, professor of anthropology in Howard Universi
It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis Chapter 30 But worse than having to be civil to the fatuous Mr. Tasbrough was keeping his mouth shut when, toward the end of June, a newspaperman at Battington, Vermont, was suddenly arrested as editor of Vermon
It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis Chapter 26 The Informer composing room closed down at eleven in the evening, for the paper had to be distributed to villages forty miles away and did not issue a later city edition. Dan Wilgus, the foreman, rema