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- Author: Bernard Shaw
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Year: 2017
- Pages: 140
- ISBN-10: 1544625987
- ISBN-13: 9781544625980
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 0.8 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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But where were our front benchers to nest if not here? The alternative to Heartbreak House was Horseback Hall, consisting of a prison for horses with an annex for the ladies and gentlemen who rode them, hunted them, talked about them, bought them and sold them, and gave nine-tenths of their lives to them, dividing the other tenth between charity, churchgoing (as a substitute for religion), and conservative electioneering (as a substitute for politics). It is true that the two establishments got mixed at the edges. Exiles from the library, the music room, and the picture gallery would be found languishing among the stables, miserably discontented; and hardy horsewomen who slept at the first chord of Schumann were born, horribly misplaced, into the garden of Klingsor; but sometimes one came upon horsebreakers and heartbreakers who could make the best of both worlds.
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- Author: Bernard Shaw
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Year: 2017
- Pages: 140
- ISBN-10: 1544625987
- ISBN-13: 9781544625980
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 0.8 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
But where were our front benchers to nest if not here? The alternative to Heartbreak House was Horseback Hall, consisting of a prison for horses with an annex for the ladies and gentlemen who rode them, hunted them, talked about them, bought them and sold them, and gave nine-tenths of their lives to them, dividing the other tenth between charity, churchgoing (as a substitute for religion), and conservative electioneering (as a substitute for politics). It is true that the two establishments got mixed at the edges. Exiles from the library, the music room, and the picture gallery would be found languishing among the stables, miserably discontented; and hardy horsewomen who slept at the first chord of Schumann were born, horribly misplaced, into the garden of Klingsor; but sometimes one came upon horsebreakers and heartbreakers who could make the best of both worlds.
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