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A Synopsis Is A Cold Thing. You Do It With The Front Of Your Mind. If You're Going To Stay With It, You Never Get Quite The Same Magic As When You're Going All Out.

The Canadian Is Often A Baffled Man Because He Feels Different From His British Kindred And His American Neighbours, Sharply Refused To Be Lumped Together With Either Of Them, Yet Cannot Make Plain His Difference.

On The 1st Of August, 1774, I Endeavoured To Extract Air From Mercurius Calcinates Per Se [mercury Oxide]; And I Presently Found That, By Means Of This Lens, Air Was Expelled From It Very Readily. … I Admitted Water To It [the Extracted Air], And Found That It Was Not Imbibed By It. But What Surprized Me More Than I Can Well Express, Was, That A Candle Burned In This Air With A Remarkably Vigorous Flame… I Was Utterly At A Loss How To Account For It.

I Know Only Two Words Of American Slang, 'swell' And 'lousy'. I Think 'swell' Is Lousy, But 'lousy' Is Swell.

It Had The Old Double Keyboard, An Entirely Different Set Of Keys For Capitals And Figures, So That The Paper Seemed A Long Way Off, And The Machine Was As Big And Solid As A Battle Cruiser. Typing Was Then A Muscular Activity. You Could Ache After It. If You Were Not Familiar With Those Vast Keyboards, Your Hand Wandered Over Them Like A Child Lost In A Wood. The Noise Might Have Been That Of A Shipyard On The Clyde. You Would No More Have Thought Of Carrying One Of Those Grim Structures As You Would Have Thought Of Travelling With A Piano.