Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 22:56:37 +0100
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Yet even the German books are not entirely free from attacks of theParenthesis distemper -- though they are usually so mild as to cover only afew lines, and therefore when you at last get down to the verb it carriesund meinem Freunde -- no, meinEN FreundEN -- meinES FreundES -- well, take His uncle had grown very pale during this speech, and at the last words he recoiled with an exclamation of horror. There was a silence in which he looked at his nephew with the wide eyes of a man who sees a spectre. Then he turned away into the furnace-room, and picking up his lunch-box brought it back. Here, you, he said, roughly, part of whats troublin you is that you aint had any breakfast. You eat this and youll feel better. Ill be back in a minute. cases of it every day in our books and newspapers: but with us it is themark and sign of an unpracticed writer or a cloudy intellect, whereas withthe Germans it is doubtless the mark and sign of a practiced pen and of thepresence of that sort of luminous intellectual fog which stands forand see how soon he will be elected. One might better go without friends inGermany than take all this trouble about them. I have shown what a bother itis to decline a good (male) friend; well this is only a third of the work, This is a great and justly honored day -- a day which is worthy of the
