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Frankenstein / Existential Burden
If I were engaged in any high undertaking or design, fraught with extensive utility to my fellow creatures, then could I live to fulfil it. But such i...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Leadership and Doubt
This, however, did not satisfy the Canadian, who that day came to me asking where we were going. “We are going where our Captain’s fancy takes us, Mas...
Pride and Prejudice / Public Perception
Miss Lucas is married and settled: and one of my own daughters. I suppose you have heard of it; indeed, you must have seen it in the papers. It was in...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Perception of Meaning
"Look at the sentence as dictated by you." "Well, but it means nothing," was the angry answer. "Nothing if you read from left to right, but mark, if f...
Gulliver's Travels / Ephemeral Knowledge
He said, “that new systems of nature were but new fashions, which would vary in every age; and even those, who pretend to demonstrate them from mathem...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Volcanic Ascent
The bottom now rose sensibly, and we soon arrived at long circuitous slopes, or inclined planes, which took us higher by degrees; but we were obliged ...