Excerpt from The Secret of the League: The Story of a Social War "I suppose I am old-fashioned" - there was a murmur of polite dissent from all the ladies present, except the one addressed - "Oh, I take it as a compliment nowadays, I assure you; but when I was a girl a young lady would have no more thought of flying than of" - she paused almost on a note of pained surprise at finding the familiar comparison of a lifetime cut off - "well, of standing on her head." "No," replied the young lady in point, with the unfeeling candour that marked the youthful spirit of the age, "because it...
Excerpt from The Secret of the League: The Story of a Social War "I suppose I am old-fashioned" - there was a murmur of polite dissent from all th...
Excerpt from Kai Lung's Golden Hours Homo faber. Man is born to make. His business is to construct: to plan: to carry out the plan: to fit together, and to produce a finished thing. That human art in which it is most difficult to achieve this end (and in which it is far easier to neglect it than in any other) is the art of writing. Yet this much is certain, that unconstructed writing is at once worthless and ephemeral: and nearly the whole of our modern English writing is unconstructed. The matter of survival is perhaps not the most important, though it is a test of a kind, and it...
Excerpt from Kai Lung's Golden Hours Homo faber. Man is born to make. His business is to construct: to plan: to carry out the plan: to fit togethe...
