W. Somerset Maugham
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And any narration of pertinent facts could only quicken into life the dead ghosts of a thousand sheeted annoyances to squeak and gibber.
Thrilled memory studded thick with the tombstones of happy hours, murdered by your friend's friend.
Also, the animal is too well known to need a description.
Imagine a thing in all essential particulars.
The exact reverse of a desirable acquaintance, and you have his mental photograph.
How your friend could ever admire so hopeless and unendurable a bore is a problem you are ever seeking to solve.
Perhaps you may be assisted in it by a previous solution of the kindred problem.
How he could ever feel affection for yourself?
Perhaps your friend's friend is equally exercised over that question.
Perhaps from his point of view you are your friend's friend.
End of chapter forty one
Chapter forty two of the Fiend's Delight by Ambrose Beerce.
This Librevox recording is in the public domain.
Recording by april six zero nine zero
To tak.
Le diable, a Tovashist.
If it be that ridicule is the test of truth, as Shaftesbury is reported to have said and didn't.
The doctrine of woman suffrage is the truest of all faiths.
The amount of really good ridicule that has been expended upon this thing is appalling, and yet we are compelled to confess that to all appearance the cause has been thereby shorn of no material strength, nor bled of its vitality.
And shall it be admitted that this potent argument of little minds is as powerless as the dullards of all ages have steadfastly maintained?
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