tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post8497428230303698827..comments2024-03-28T19:56:32.848-05:00Comments on Anecdotal Evidence: `With Bigger Windows'Patrick Kurphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08436175583386298032noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-29080057454378594942018-10-21T11:33:34.154-05:002018-10-21T11:33:34.154-05:00Many thanks, for mentioning (not "cram-throat...Many thanks, for mentioning (not "cram-throating") Logan Pearsall Smith. <br />You prompted me to read his excellent "Unforgotten Years". (1939)<br /><br />Some favorite sentences:<br />p 128 The crudeness of my mind at the age of 20 wakens amazement in me. … I feel a kind of impatient pity for that half-baked young fool.<br />149 Dupe of the Devil’s Sophisms, work for awhile, then have $ for leisure<br />151 The bully of the warehouse … vilified a poor wretch, and was listened to by the other wretches with malignant joy and hope.<br />219-226 Henry James, on "Loneliness", and the sublime doctrine of solitude.<br />295 I prefer those who ... who have the power of sitting down morning after morning to a piece of scholarly work, done for the love of it and with no thought of immediate remuneration.mike zimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08688913712302681707noreply@blogger.com