The Lost World

by Arthur Conan Doyle

you with your walnut of a brain?

Why on earth people who have something to say which is worth hearing should not take the slight trouble to learn how to make it heard is one of the strange mysteries of modern life. Their methods are as reasonable as to try to pour some precious stuff from the spring to the reservoir through a non-conducting pipe, which could by the least effort be opened.

The gulf between the dead and the living was something which our chemistry could not as yet bridge.

but that you may not lose your sense of proportion and mistake the acolyte for the high priest.”