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Some people cannot believe that they are not perfect if they are not constantly informed of their shortcomings. I remember a girl whose charms were most conspicuous for their absence who once remarked, "How pretty I am!" "What makes you think so?" inquired a hearer. "Oh," replied she, "no one ever told me I was ugly...
...Nicolls' "Hypnotic Experiment" is clever and amusing. It may be queried whether the ejaculating narrative with parentheses addressed to the hearer, is an improvement to a story. Is it not as well to avoid an absolute imitation of a conversation even when one is reporting it? Do such expressions as "and I-well, I rather liked her-you needn't smile, I didn't care much about her" or "and dignified!-by George ! I've never seen anything like it" help the flow of the narrative any ? This is merely a suggestion, not an implication that...
This is a very fair specimen of gloom of another kind than that used by the "sea" poets. It has the weirdness and ghastliness of a silly ghost story told in full daylight, and produces about as much real effect on the hearer...
...quote ancient languages in their daily conversation. The reason for this is easily understood. The fact that all the students are occupied in the same line of study gives them sympathetic views. Men are readier to converse on the subject of their studies when they are sure that every hearer will know precisely to what they refer, and what they mean...
...philosopher then explained his conviction that his daughter was destined to be the mother of a wonderful race; he told his weary wandering in search of a father worthy of such descendants, and his success in finding such a father in the person of his hearer; and he begged that Yung might not, by refusing to gratify his wishes, make his search vain...