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"Perhaps... I wanted to find myself. This is an interesting phrase, not current as far as I know in the language of any other people, which certainly does not mean what it says but betrays a nagging suspicion that something has been misplaced."

"I heard of the slothful Asiatics" is crazy

so Shelley can write "What did he there" and it's absolute fiction but if I do then it's grammatically incorrect

"Her disposition was gay" "Henry rejoiced in my gaiety" "everyone was gay" sure

1831 version is slightly less incestuous I'll give it that

"Thus strangely are our souls constructed, and by such ligaments are we bound to prosperity or ruin... Destiny was too potent, and her immutable laws had decreed my utter and terrible destruction."

- In the Penal Colony
- Children on the Road
- The Judgement

Read (& ranked):
- The Breakfast
- The Last Summer
- End of a Struggle
- The Houseguest
- Haute Cuisine
- Musique Concrète
- Moses and Gaspar
- The Cell
- Fragment of a Diary

"The Game of the Law and its Prizes"
Cardozo yaps about his love of the game so much I nearly missed a random misogynist sentence in the middle of the address

Cardozo "Have you the books of the celebrated Buffoons?" = Implications Edelman "Dogs must be carried on escalators"

"I must not forget... the tonsorial or agglutinative [judicial style]. I will not expatiate upon its horrors. They are known but too well."

"[The judge] is expounding a science, or a body of truth which he seeks to assimilate to a science, but in the process of exposition he is practicing an art."

Read (& ranked):
- The Breakfast
- The Last Summer
- End of a Struggle
- The Houseguest
- Haute Cuisine
- Musique Concrète
- Fragment of a Diary