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When a man in a forest thinks he is going forward in a straight line, in reality he is going in a circle, I did my best to go in a circle, hoping to go in a straight line.
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malone-dies
molloy
page-94
part-i
the-unnamable
sly
part-1
forest
logic
wit
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Samuel Beckett |
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"That's my one desire, to be caught," answered Vronsky, with his serene,
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mischievous
rouge
sly
vronsky
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Leo Tolstoy |
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Childermass knew what games the children on street-corners are playing - games that all other grown-ups have long since forgotten. Childermass knew what old people by firesides are thinking of, though no one has asked them in years. Childermass knew what young men hear in the rattling of the drums and the tooting of the pipes that makes them leave their homes and go to be soldiers - and he knew the half-eggcupful of glory and the barrelful of misery that await them. And all that Childermass knew made him smile; and some of what he knew made him laugh out loud; and none of what he knew wrung from him so much as ha'pennyworth of pity.
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magic
clever-man
jonathan-strange-and-mr-norrell
sly
susanna-clarke
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Susanna Clarke |