/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.23034248]

>Away from his work, the doctor was withdrawn and absentminded. On the day he was supposed to show Queen Victoria around the wards of the National Hospital, for instance, he forgot to arrive.
>Social and cultural affairs bored him, with one exception: he loved to read, especially the novels of Austen and Dickens and popular thrillers by William Wilkie Collins and Arthur Conan Doyle.
>But books themselves meant nothing to Jackson. He often tore out and discarded pages as he read them, and even cut from borrowed neurology textbooks the sections he wanted to reread. One afternoon, a salesboy in a bookstore gawked as the prim, bearded doctor tore off the cover of a volume he had just purchased and ripped the text in two, so as to fit half the book in each coat pocket.
>Catching the boy's stare, Jackson solemnly explained, "You think I'm mad, my boy, but it's the people who don't do this who are mad".

[Anonymous No.23035576]

/// There were no soldiers visible here, just traffic and crowds of shoppers and storekeepers, tourists and the schnorrers who hit them up for money /// Lisa was living it up like she didn't have a care in the world /// The discovery was a fluke /// The analysis needs to be more granular /// The ancient ivy cleaved to the ruined castle walls /// The speech touched on all the important issues but never really discussed them /// A ballot snafu in the election led to a recount /// The drug is very effective - the only snag is that it cannot be produced in large quantities /// People with devious intentions always manage to find loopholes in legislation /// The car gave a sudden judder, then stopped dead /// She might live to rue this impetuous decision /// For now, foreign companies should tread carefully and onshore user data when possible /// We had to trudge through deep snow to get to school /// The play just plodded along in the second act /// Wortman is listed as a denturist — a person who makes dentures — in the city of Dartmouth, near Halifax /// She'll be delivering the keynote address at the conference on Friday // He rummaged through the jumble of papers on his desk /// That is not much comfort to a motorist stuck in a snowdrift /// When they reached Trafalgar Square, the demonstrators were hemmed in by the police /// He is a philologist, specializing in American poetry /// Let's avoid that particular rabbit hole and consider a broader and more unsettling point ///All images were taken at 8000 frames per second, using schlieren photography /// The meticulous artist arranged the vibrant flowers in a perfectly set bouquet /// It's told in epistolary format (with emails messages, letters) as lawyers try and figure out what happened /// My older brother and his cronies all got computer science degrees as they were told this would be the "it" job of the future /// Under a new administration, the government has changed tack /// Plaintiffs and jurors seem mostly like rubes shoehorned into the show /// She viewed her students as blank slates, just waiting to be filled with knowledge /// The top of the wooden chest was inlaid with ivory /// When the economy hit the skids, trailers offered an alternative form of cheap, year-round housing /// She is a deadpan comedian of the driest vintage, and her face remained stolid /// The hot coffee nearly scalded his tongue /// Nor, given the premises of the white paper, is it obvious why capture would even have to be attempted /// Much of the privately owned cemetery is completely overgrown with kudzu or is returning to forest /// Although these reviews are extensive, they do not broach many of the fundamental questions of sleep research /// Her superb songwriting chops are on display in this album ///

[Anonymous No.23035852]

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