Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1911 Excerpt: ... leaving the obstructors with no theoretic ground to stand on. "Nevertheless my active forefather was more useful than the thinkers: he choked the objectors to death one by one wherever he met them, and having restored harmony by exterminating all dissonance, confirmed the title of the Fat to all the food forever." CHAPTER XXV The Chief Eaters And Their Advanced Anatomy "Were the feather-owners very happy in their new vocation while these adventures were in the wind?" I asked. "Neither then nor for ten thousand years afterward," admitted he. "According to the record this period was consumed in adapting themselves to the privileges of their gastric regimen. How they missed the pleasure of hunting! for they could no longer go out into the fields to mingle frolicsomely with their former equals, now illimitably beneath them; all their manly exertions and felicities ceased, leaving a bad appetite, eternal colic, appendicitis, and grandeur as their only respites from mortal tedium; they sat at home in a noble dining palace hollowed out in the earth, and ate and slept day and night in the same spot, and hated and frequently assassinated each other to enliven the maddening monotony--when they could get enough awake to do so. They died young, scarcely ever exceeding thirty years, having thus reduced their earthly residence below one-third of its normal period; but they said a merry life is the thing, and we have secured the illustrious and abiding boon of greatness; and the merry fellows rotted through their brief youthful years with loathsome diseases for which there were no names because they had never been seen or heard of before. At first they strove to prick their spirits up by a daily mimic hunt in the aristrocratic seclusion of the palace yard, a hole in the g...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1911 Excerpt: ... leaving the obstructors with no theoretic ground to stand on. "Nevertheless my active forefather was more useful than the thinkers: he choked the objectors to death one by one wherever he met them, and having restored harmony by exterminating all dissonance, confirmed the title of the Fat to all the food forever." CHAPTER XXV The Chief Eaters And Their Advanced Anatomy "Were the feather-owners very happy in their new vocation while these adventures were in the wind?" I asked. "Neither then nor for ten thousand years afterward," admitted he. "According to the record this period was consumed in adapting themselves to the privileges of their gastric regimen. How they missed the pleasure of hunting! for they could no longer go out into the fields to mingle frolicsomely with their former equals, now illimitably beneath them; all their manly exertions and felicities ceased, leaving a bad appetite, eternal colic, appendicitis, and grandeur as their only respites from mortal tedium; they sat at home in a noble dining palace hollowed out in the earth, and ate and slept day and night in the same spot, and hated and frequently assassinated each other to enliven the maddening monotony--when they could get enough awake to do so. They died young, scarcely ever exceeding thirty years, having thus reduced their earthly residence below one-third of its normal period; but they said a merry life is the thing, and we have secured the illustrious and abiding boon of greatness; and the merry fellows rotted through their brief youthful years with loathsome diseases for which there were no names because they had never been seen or heard of before. At first they strove to prick their spirits up by a daily mimic hunt in the aristrocratic seclusion of the palace yard, a hole in the g...
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