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I brought with me a lunette, the diver's aid, a four-sided wooden frame fifteen inches each way, with a bottom of glass and no top. I stuck my head in the box and looked through the glass, which I thrust below the surface, thus evading the opaqueness or distortion caused by the ripples.
Ever since early youth, I have been clearly conscious of this dilemma, and I have determined and said: "No; I choose the abnormal give me hysteria, but submission, never!" So derangement and distortion have come to my mind.
He who called himself Castalio had sunk as if fainting into a chair: his trembling was so violent that all his limbs fluttered; the muscles of his face quivered with such force that no feature in it could be distinguisht; and after the young men had gazed on it for some time amazedly, they thought with horrour they perceived that from this distortion of all the lineaments came forth the well-known countenance of the aged Apone.
This was the principal cause at first of the misunderstanding of the doctrine, and afterward of the complete distortion of it. It was supposed that Christ's teaching was transmitted to men not like every other truth, but in a special miraculous way.
At first they were, or seemed to be, mere plays of fancy shadowy repetitions of daylight experiences in clownish distortion. Then they began to change. An element of unrest, and finally of dread, began to fill them.
He galloped on with me, though it seemed with great difficulty, and with a strange movement, half ludicrous and half horrible, forcing at the same time every limb and feature into distortion, he held up the gold piece and screamed at every leap, 'Counterfeit! false! false coin! counterfeit! and such was the strange sound that issued from his hollow breast, you would have supposed that at every scream he must have tumbled upon the ground dead.
"It won't live on blackmail, at any rate," said Hal, his mind reverting to its original grievance. "Maybe it will. You won't know it if it does. Anyhow, it'll live on suppression and distortion and manipulation of news, because it'll have to, if it's going to live at all." "You mean that is the basis of the newspaper business as it is to-day?" "Generally speaking. It certainly is in Worthington."
Now, Sir, I humbly conceive, whatever you have determined of the Grinners, the Whistlers ought to be encouraged, not only as their Art is practised without Distortion, but as it improves Country Musick, promotes Gravity, and teaches ordinary People to keep their Countenances, if they see any thing ridiculous in their Betters; besides that it seems an Entertainment very particularly adapted to the Bath, as it is usual for a Rider to whistle to his Horse when he would make his Waters pass.
Dreams were, of many things, seeing the self's place in the environment and judging of itself as one cloud or part of the function of a group of clouds. The dream of his sister was a major literal distortion of the reality it was based upon, but that was not the case with this one that he had just awakened from. It, like the plant-watering dream, had more of a literal base.
The trees had grown so think and close that they shouldered one another out of their places, and the weakest, forced into shapes of strange distortion, languished like cripples.
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