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Thursday, or whatever the day was, I would Sit down before a blank sheet of foolscap, and gnaw the end of my pen. The whole world, or it would be more true to say the whole non controversial world, lay open to me I could take a gold-fish from its pool in Sussex, a malacca-cane from (i suppose) its grove in Malacca, Columbus from his Ship in mid-atlantic, or a stock-broker from his lunch in Cheapside, and say all that was to be said on the matter in a thousand words. The difficulty of course was in the selection of the subject rather than in the writing. It is easier to make an essay on Walnuts than to make an essay on Auytbing (including walnuts), just as it is easier to be a tram than an omnibus. When your road is chosen for you, you can go ahead dili gently when you choose it for yourself, you are looking over your shoulder at the other roads, surely much more attractive, which you might have chosen; in which attitude progress is less ?uent. However, one gets there at last.
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