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For a minute or two I was quite dazed by my discovery; and then as I got steadier or got crazier, perhaps I ought to say nothing would serve me but that I must get down to where my treasure was, so that my eyes might see it and that I might touch it with my hands.
It may be safely assumed that most of the novel-reading which people fancy an intellectual pastime is the emptiest dissipation, hardly more related to thought or the wholesome exercise of the mental faculties than opium-eating; in either case the brain is drugged, and left weaker and crazier for the debauch.
The sarcasms of Swift were not without justification; for crazier analogies than that between Andromache and Andrew Mackay have been gravely insisted on by persons who, like the author of "Amilec," believed that the true secret of philosophizing est celui de rêver heureusement.
But I guess Sheila had the roughest end, not even knowing for sure where I stood." Gordon stared at them slowly, not quite believing it, even though it was no crazier than anything else during the past few hours. Trench shrugged. "I was railroaded here by Security, told to be good and they'd let me go home. A lot of men got that treatment.
She'll sit whole days at the window and stare, and she used to make the children down in the yard even crazier than herself with her nonsense. And she was always bothering me to leave everything standing poor as we were after my man died just to go round and round the room with her and the dolls and sing those songs all about earls. Yes, Pelle, you may believe I've wept tears of blood over her."
Cornelia now wished, above all things, to have a little bit of sense, as she phrased it in her thoughts; and she was aware that the present position of affairs might look rather crazy to some people. The best excuse for it was that it would have looked crazier yet if she had refused such an opportunity simply because of the circumstances.
"I don't care thirty cents what anybody says," Tom said; "I got to be fair." "I'm not mad, you old grouch," Roy said, "and you should say sixty cents, because the price of everything is double. We should worry. I was waiting here to meet you so as to tell you that I don't know why you did that and I don't care. People have done crazier things than that, I should hope.
"But listen to what Professor Ball says on the same page. 'It is an incontestable fact that medical men are excessively predisposed to mental aberration. Nothing is truer. Among medical men, those who are more especially predestined to insanity are the alienists. It is often difficult to determine which of the two is the crazier, the madman or his doctor.
I'll pay every cent with interest, before I spend any on anything else." "Why, you must be crazy!" said Nancy Ellen. "Would I be any crazier than you, when you wanted to go?" asked Kate. "But you were here to help Mother," said Nancy Ellen. "And you are here to help her now," persisted Kate.
After prolonged study of the art shown at the Paris Autumn Salon you ask yourself: This whirlpool of jostling ambitions, crazy colours, still crazier drawing and composition whither does it tend? Is there any strain of tendency, any central current to be detected? Is it young genius in the raw, awaiting the sunshine of success to ripen its somewhat terrifying gifts?
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