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unearths some literary gems.
From In a Canadian Canoe, by Barry Pain:
***I suppose you know that Art and Music are separated now. They sometimes meet, but they never speak.--"On Art and Sardines,--but more especially Sardines"***Materialistic friends have told me that too much pudding will cause exaltation.--"On Exaltation"***Edgar Allan Poe quoted these lines in his lecture on The Poetic Principle, and remarked on their insouciance. Well, he's dead.--"On Exaltation"***A train should never be allowed to go anywhere, but only back to the place whence it came.--"On Reflection"***I should like these pages to be of solid, material use to any young men who are really trying to lead the philosophical life, and are quite earnest in their desire to avoid the Scylla of action without falling into the Charybdis of thought.--"On Reflection"***We went so fast that a sparrow seemed to be literally flying past me. I believe that was what it actually was doing.--"A Storm on the Backs"***No one objects more than the well-trained loafer to enforced laziness.... It is not the waiting which the loafer minds: it is the having to wait.--"On Loafing"***
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