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Make your own book. Make it great. Ulysses (by James Joyce) STATELY, PLUMP BUCK MULLIGAN CAME FROM THE STAIRHEAD, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.
A yellow dressinggown, ungirdled, was sustained gently behind him by the mild morning air. He held the bowl aloft and intoned: –Introibo Ad Altare Dei. Halted, he peered down the dark winding stairs and called out coarsely: Fairy Tales (by the Grimm Brothers) A certain king had a beautiful garden, and in the garden stood a tree which bore golden apples.
These apples were always counted, and about the time when they began to grow ripe it was found that every night one of them was gone. The king became very angry at this, and ordered the gardener to keep watch all night under the tree. The gardener set his eldest son to watch; but about twelve o’clock he fell asleep, and in the morning another of the apples was missing.
Then the second son was ordered to watch; and at midnight he too fell asleep, and in the morning another apple was gone. How to Speak and Write Correctly (by Joseph Devlin) Vocabulary–Parts of Speech–Requisites It is very easy to learn how to speak and write correctly, as for all purposes of ordinary conversation and communication, only about 2,000 different words are required.
The mastery of just twenty hundred words, the knowing where to place them, will make us not masters of the English language, but masters of correct speaking and writing. Small number, you will say, compared with what is in the dictionary! But nobody ever uses all the words in the dictionary or could use them did he live to be the age of Methuselah, and there is no necessity for using them. There are upwards of 200,000 words in the recent editions of the large dictionaries, but the one-hundredth part of this number will suffice for all your wants.
To use a big word or a foreign word when a small one and a familiar one will answer the same purpose, is a sign of ignorance. Every person of intelligence should be able to use his mother tongue correctly. The English Language in a Nutshell. Through the Looking-Glass (by Lewis Carroll) Alice (frontispiece) by Arthur Rackham, 1907 One thing was certain, that the WHITE kitten had had nothing to do with it:–it was the black kitten’s fault entirely.
For the white kitten had been having its face washed by the old cat for the last quarter of an hour (and bearing it pretty well, considering); so you see that it COULDN’T have had any hand in the mischief. The way Dinah washed her children’s faces was this: first she held the poor thing down by its ear with one paw, and then with the other paw she rubbed its face all over, the wrong way, beginning at the nose: and just now, as I said, she was hard at work on the white kitten, which was lying quite still and trying to purr–no doubt feeling that it was all meant for its good. ’Oh, you wicked little thing!’ Cried Alice, catching up the kitten, and giving it a little kiss to make it understand that it was in disgrace. ’Really, Dinah ought to have taught you better manners! ’Do you know what to-morrow is, Kitty?’ ’What volcano?’ Alice in Wonderland (by Lewis Carroll)
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice, “without pictures or conversations?”
So she was considering, in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her. There was nothing so very remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so very much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, “Oh dear!
Oh dear! I shall be too late!” In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again. “Well!” BookMooch: trade your books with other people. Free Classic AudioBooks. Digital narration for the 21st Century. Share Book Recommendations With Your Friends, Join Book Clubs, Answer Trivia. What Should I Read Next? Book recommendations from readers like you.