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“The rapidity with which one can completely change one’s ideas . . . and accommodate ourselves to a state of barbarism is wonderful.”
Science from an Easy Chair.
Without speaking, Clark reached out and poured some of his milk into Greenstreet’s mug. Then Worsley, then Macklin, and Rickenson and Kerr, Orde-Lees, and finally Blackboro. They finished in silence.
“It certainly looks promising.” But then he added: “Hope tells a flattering tale.”
“Lichen has also been tried,” James continued, “and we live in fear that some one will start on seaweed.”
and they felt that special kind of pride of a person who in a foolish moment accepts an impossible dare—then pulls it off to perfection.
