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Updated: July 28, 2025
It always sets me thinking of old Morley bald, with the top of his head as shiny as a billiard-ball. Good old chap, though, even if he does bully one requests the presence of Mr Archibald Maine at his quarters at at seven o'clock this evening punctually. No. What's o'clock? I think it was six. Couldn't be seven, because that's dinner-time, and he wouldn't ask me then. It must be six.
For one whole day and night not a member of my family stuck his head out of the window but he got the hair snatched off it as smooth as a billiard-ball; and; if the reader will believe me, not one of us ever dreamt of stirring abroad.
So the first point I have to put before you is that we geographers should regard the object of our science not as a magnified billiard-ball, but as a living being as Mother-Earth. Not as hard, unimpressionable, dull, and inert, but as live, supple, sensitive, and active active with an intensity of activity past all conceivability.
There was no handle of weakness to take hold of her by; she was as unseizable, except in her totality, as a billiard-ball; and on the broad, green, terrestrial table, where she had been knocked about, like all of us, by the cue of Fortune, she glanced from every human contact, and "caromed" from one relation to another, and rebounded from the stuffed cushion of temptation, with such exact and perfect angular movements, that the Enemy's corps of Reporters had long given up taking notes of her conduct, as there was no chance for their master.
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