‘An improved man, as distinguished from an ignorant one, was a man who knew the reason why water ran downhill.’ I had no desire to be this improved man; I was glad of the running water; I could watch it and listen to it gurgling among the pebbles, and bathing the bright green water plants, by the hour together. I did not want to know why it ran; I had perfect confidence that there were good reasons for what was so beautiful.
This is from the book I am currently reading. George Eliot’s(Mary Ann Evans) the lifted veil (Silas Marner). I don’t know really how much I love reading this. I read it over and over and I cannot read more than four pages a day. This doesn’t mean anything about my reading speed.
10 SEC READ The gift of insults
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Near Tokyo lived a great Samurai warrior, now old, who decided to teach Zen
Buddhism to young people. In spite of his age, the legend was that he could
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4 comments:
How many pages are there altogether?
And where do you stand now?
abt 280 pages( each page with an av of 45 lines) and me @80 something.
im sitting over it!
OO,a new look. Looks nice!
hmm, thanz.
i love this!
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