On Nothing & Kindred Subjects

By Belloc, Hilaire

Book Id: WPLBN0002953197
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Reproduction Date: 2009

Title:	On Nothing & Kindred Subjects
Author:	Belloc, Hilaire
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Non-fiction, Essay/Short nonfiction
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, On Nothing & Kindred Subjects
Historic Publication Date:	1908
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


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“I knew a man once, Maurice, who was at Oxford for three years, and after that went down with no degree. At College, while his friends were seeking for Truth in funny brown German Philosophies, Sham Religions, stinking bottles and identical equations, he was lying on his back in Eynsham meadows thinking of Nothing, and got the Truth by this parallel road of his much more quickly than did they by theirs; for the asses are still seeking, mildly disputing, and, in a cultivated manner, following the gleam, so that they have become in their Donnish middleage a nuisance and a pest; while he--that other--with the Truth very fast and firm at the end of a leather thong is dragging her sliding, whining and crouching on her four feet, dragging her reluctant through the world, even into the broad daylight where Truth most hates to be.” - Hilaire Belloc

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Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

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Essay/Short nonfiction