To be of use The people I love the best jump into work head first without dallying in the shallows and swim off with sure strokes almost out of sight. They seem to become natives of that element, the black sleek heads of seals bouncing like half-submerged balls. I love people who harness themselves, an…
I am content to be a bric-a-bracker and a Ceramiker. The very “marks” on the bottom of a piece of rare crockery are able to throw me into a gibbering ecstasy. — Mark Twain, A Tramp Abroad, Chapter XX http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/119
Note: Part of the earliest known manuscript can be viewed here. It is a transcription by George Keats; the first draft was lost. For an explanation of the poem or background about it, click here. To see a photo of the actual Sosibios Vase, about which the poem is written, click here. For more information…
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