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- Author: H G Wells
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Year: 2015
- Pages: 126
- ISBN-10: 1512173053
- ISBN-13: 9781512173055
- Format: 21.6 x 28 x 0.7 cm, softcover
- Language: English
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Most people in this world seem to live "in character"; they have a beginning, a middle and an end, and the three are congruous one with another and true to the rules of their type. You can speak of them as being of this sort of people or that. They are, as theatrical people say, no more (and no less) than "character actors." They have a class, they have a place, they know what is becoming in them and what is due to them, and their proper size of tombstone tells at last how properly they have played the part. But there is also another kind of life that is not so much living as a miscellaneous tasting of life. One gets hit by some unusual transverse force, one is jerked out of one's stratum and lives crosswise for the rest of the time, and, as it were, in a succession of samples.
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- Author: H G Wells
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Year: 2015
- Pages: 126
- ISBN-10: 1512173053
- ISBN-13: 9781512173055
- Format: 21.6 x 28 x 0.7 cm, softcover
- Language: English English
Most people in this world seem to live "in character"; they have a beginning, a middle and an end, and the three are congruous one with another and true to the rules of their type. You can speak of them as being of this sort of people or that. They are, as theatrical people say, no more (and no less) than "character actors." They have a class, they have a place, they know what is becoming in them and what is due to them, and their proper size of tombstone tells at last how properly they have played the part. But there is also another kind of life that is not so much living as a miscellaneous tasting of life. One gets hit by some unusual transverse force, one is jerked out of one's stratum and lives crosswise for the rest of the time, and, as it were, in a succession of samples.
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