A House-boat on the Styx: Being Some Account of the Divers Doings of the Associated ShadesHarper, 1895 - 171 pages |
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Page 66 - There's another phase of this business that we haven't considered yet, and it's rather important," said Demosthenes, taking a fresh pebble out of his bonbonniere. "That's in the matter of stationery. This club, like all other wellregulated clubs, provides its members with a suitable supply of writing materials. Charon informs me that the wastebaskets last week turned out forty-two reams of our best correspondence paper on which these poets had scribbled the first draft of their verses. Now I don't...
Page 60 - That isn't the point, as the man said to the assassin who tried to stab him with the hilt of his dagger," retorted Doctor Johnson, with some asperity. "Of course, complaint-books are for the reception of complaints — nobody disputes that. What I want to have determined is whether it is necessary or proper for the complaints to go further.
Page 67 - Well, they're very wasteful," said Demosthenes. " We can meet that easily enough," observed Cassius. "Furnish each writingtable with a slate. I should think they'd be pleased with that. It's so much easier to rub out the wrong word." "Most poets prefer to rub out the right word,
Page 59 - I hold in my hand," returned Demosthenes, putting a pebble in his mouth so that he might enunciate more clearly. A frown ruffled the serenity of Doctor Johnson's brow. "In the complaint-book, eh?" he said, slowly. "I thought house committees were not expected to pay any attention to complaints in complaint-books. I never heard of its being done before." "Well, I can't say that I have either," replied Demosthenes, chewing thoughtfully on the pebble, "but I suppose complaint-books are the places for...
Page 67 - They've got a right to the stationery, though," put in Blackstone. " A clear legal right to it. If they choose to write poems on the paper instead of boring people to death with letters, as most of us do, that's their own affair.
Page 62 - What was the sight that greeted your eyes, Confucius ?" asked Cassius. " Omar Khayyam stretched over five of the most comfortable chairs in the library...
Page 51 - Western version that stages the play with "three Hamlets, two ghosts, and a pair of blood-hounds. It's called the Uncle TomHamlet combination, and instead of falling in love with one crazy Ophelia," he is "made to woo three dusky maniacs named Topsy on a canvas ice-floe while blood-hounds bark behind the scenes.
Page 61 - Corner entirely unnecessary," said Confucius. " This isn'ta class organization, and we should resist any effort to make it or any portion of it so. In fact, I will go further and state that it is my opinion that if we do any legislating in the matter at all, we ought to discourage rather than encourage these poets. They are always littering the club up with themselves. Only last Wednesday I came here with a guest — no less...