Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...well," bitterly reflected the Vag, "at this rate I might just as well let the malignant machine have its own way. It can't keep it up indefinitely and I suppose that I can stand it for a second or so longer." Finding such trains of thought too wearisome for a mere ten o'clock on a Holiday Morning, the Vag, too lazy to get worried about his missing left arm, turned over, pulled the warm quilt over his head, and went back to sleep as quickly as possible...
...Pinkle did not know quite when it began, but it did begin. He thought it started the day before his mother swallowed one of his guppies. He was never sure that when it did begin he was conscious of it. All he knew was that it began...
Harvard hosts were tolerant of their temporary weekend guests on the whole, considering the resulting increase in telephone and laundry bills. But one exception was the host who came in at five in the morning. "I found a guy sprawled on the floor and thought he was a friend of mine, so I balanced a glass of water on his shoulder and then kicked him. When he looked up I found I'd never seen him before...
...fruits of Audubon's hard work were bitterly attacked by contemporaries-by art critics like William Dunlap, by jealous naturalists like Alexander Wilson. Neither artists nor scientists liked or trusted his unseemly wedding of science with art; both avowed the result was properly neither. Audubon, who thought of himself as first a backwoodsman, then an artist, did not live to hear their paltry jibes drowned in the ringing praise a nation so often belatedly bestows on its foremost citizens...
...turning them down, publishers have made historic mistakes. All Quiet on the Western Front was rejected on the grounds that the public was tired of War books. Stokes thought so little of Beau Geste that it did not copyright the book. The first edition of The Story of Philosophy was 1,500 copies, was only printed after a bookseller promised to take 500 copies. The Story of San Michele was first listed as a travel book and only 500 copies imported from England...