The Lost World

by Arthur Conan Doyle

If you want to write good copy, you must be where the things are.”

“If I could only get a single good, meaty sentence which seemed to convey some sort of definite human idea, it would serve my turn. Ah, yes, this one will do. I seem in a vague way almost to understand it.

a carrion eater, like all of his kind—porcus ex grege diaboli—a swine from the devil’s herd.

“Curupuri is the spirit of the woods, something terrible, something malevolent, something to be avoided.

this interjection appeared to him so absurd that he was at a loss how to deal with it. So looks the Shakespearean who is confronted by a rancid Baconian, or the astronomer who is assailed by a flat-earth fanatic.

I don’t think that I am a particularly brave man. I have an Irish imagination which makes the unknown and the untried more terrible than they are. On the other hand, I was brought up with a horror of cowardice and with a terror of such a stigma.

You have done something to mitigate my feelings for the loathsome profession to which you unhappily belong.

Journalism

Brain, character, soul—only as one sees more of life does one understand how distinct is each.