>A great fault in my studies, when I was young, was that the plan of the building was too big. In consequence I could not build the upper story and even add the roof. In the end, I contented myself with a few mansards I arranged pretty well enough, but I could not help that it would rain in them when the weather was bad. That is what happens to more than a few!
Russell Hoban
>>8588384
I will NEVER read a book by this gremlin-looking mother fucker
>I was covered with so much undeserved honors in my life that I will, for once, bear an unjustified blame.
>>8588384
let's be honest-- we all went to grade school with somebody that looked like this dude amirite?
my great uncle wrote an absolute ripper of a diary desu
>I think Rousseau said: a child who only knows his parents does not really know them. This idea can be applied to other knowledge, maybe even to all that are not of a pure nature: who only knows chemistry does not know chemistry well.
>>8588384
That dude looks like he's just farted in an elevator
>>8588480
>>8588422
>>8588384
i think i like this man
>I forget the most part of what I read, like what I ate, but I know one thing: that the two nevertheless contribute to the conservation of my mind and my body.