The Story of Wilbur the Hat: Being a True Account of the Strange Things which Sometimes Happen in a Part of the World which Does Not ExistNot a juvenile. A skeptic's view of the world with echoes of Dante. In author's view, the only persons ever to view the secret of life were Kant and Spinoza. |
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Page 70 - ... where they winter with the Mormons. When one of the elders becomes too much interested in Jennie, who had married Adam Brice, only to lose him in an Indian attack, the party leaves the Mormon territory and eventually reaches the gold fields beyond the Sierras. There they prospect but discover that there is no pot of gold at the foot of the rainbow.
Page 100 - He who spoke the wisest words that were ever uttered. But people paid no attention to what He said. They were indifferent. They fought and were uncharitable and did cruel things to each other. Then came the great war. It destroyed all that was good and fine and noble and it broke His heart. He left, that nevermore might He hear the voice of man.
Page 44 - We have the greatest of them all." "Show him to me." "He is right over there. The man with a penknife and a bit of old wood.
Page 88 - Hell is all right in its own way. We have got to have something of the sort for the common people. They must be kept in order.
Page 78 - Because they are too busy arguing. They are all of them right, absolutely right, and they love to tell the world so.
Page 28 - They had meant so much to so many people for so many thousands of years that we could not just let them lie in a corner to be sold for junk.
Page 76 - The traffic cop on the corner of Forty-second Street and Fifth Avenue, and that is the truth !" BUT it was not yet the time for him to return to this earth.
Page 14 - He told his uncle exactly what had happened and said that he was sorry not to have been able to do more himself. "My child," the old Thunderer answered, "you did the best you could.