“This silent cry is of ecstasy for what has been done, and of despair at being forestalled, and being thus forewarned, that neither This Year nor Next Year am I to have the ability and wisdom to light the lamp on my own. Although one branch of childhood is in this fashion lopped for all time, the rest of it still inhabits the body of a child which occupies itself in childish matters.” YearsChildrenHas BeensArtStillsMatterDoneBodyLightNextMy OwnAbilityChildhoodFashionCryDespairSilentAll TimeBranchesEcstasyLampsNext YearForewarned Author:Hal Porter
“I immediately cotton on to the fact that intelligence thus lightly used, and one-upmanshipishly displayed, is a birthmark giving me a two-coloured face, is a goitre, a hump on the back, webbed toes, and makes me stink like the night-man. Once again I learn what I knew on my very first day at Kensington School, and have carelessly forgotten, that it is more intelligent to appear less intelligent. I henceforth rein myself in, and publicly give back only what I have been given - fifty-six for seven- eights.” MenGivingFirstsHas BeensTwoFactsSchoolFacesUsedNightGivenEducationLearningSixIntelligentSevenForgottenFiftyToesGiving BackCottonStinkReinsBirthmarks Author:Hal Porter
