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Two or three passers-by halted wonderingly and Prettilove, the hairdresser, moved across the pavement from his shop door where he had been taking the air. "My good fellow," said I, "you have lost your temper and are talking drivel. Kindly unhand my donkey." Prettilove, who has a sycophantic sense of humour, burst into a loud guffaw.
There had been moments, days perhaps, of discouragement, when he regarded it as drivel, and himself as a fool in so far, that is, as he had trafficked with literature. On the other hand, his original view of it reasserted itself with frequency.
"There on that infernal coast I was the real thing and the only one, at that. Here I'm just T. Blake, ex-bum, periodic drunkard, all around " "Stow that drivel!" ordered Griffith. "What if you were a kid hobo? What are you now? one of the best engineers in the country; one that's going to make the top in short order. I tell you, you're going to succeed. What's more, Mollie said "
We love to hear them prate and drivel and lie. We can tell them the moment we see them. They always throw out a few feelers; they never cast themselves adrift till they have sounded every individual and know that he has not traveled. Then they open their throttle valves, and how they do brag, and sneer, and swell, and soar, and blaspheme the sacred name of Truth!
At a time when the sonnet was treated as the special vehicle for allegory, Shakespeare’s sonnets were the direct outcome of emotion of the most intimate and personal kind—a fact which at once destroys the ignorant drivel about the Baconian authorship of Shakespeare’s plays, for what Bacon had was fancy, not imagination, and Fancy is the mother of Allegory, Imagination is the mother of Drama.
Just before he went to bed the Sunday evening of its appearance, Condy read it over again for the last time. "It's a rotten failure," he muttered gloomily as he cast the paper from him. "Simple drivel. I wonder what Blix will think of it. I wonder if I amount to a hill of beans. I wonder WHAT she wants to go East for, anyway."
Tish is forehanded if nothing else." "Well," I remarked with some bitterness, "if we are going along it might be well to prepare us too." "Something," Aggie continued, "that requires landing on one foot with the other in the air." "Don't drivel," said I. "She's not likely going into the Russian ballet. She's training her muscles, that's all."
One day there was a period of two seconds when a bundle didn't pop out at her, and she had time to think. Anyway, she left. I asked about her. She's on the streets." "Well?" "Thanks to you and your system." "Look here, Fanny. I didn't come to you for that kind of talk. Don't, for heaven's sake, give me any sociological drivel to-day. I'm not here just to tell you my troubles.
But failure will always be secured, while the huge majority of authors do not aim high, but aim at being a little lower than the last domestic drivel which came out in three volumes, or the last analysis of the inmost self of some introspective young girl which crossed the water from the States. These are general counsels, and apply to the production of books.
A quarter of an hour later, I had tracked her down to the summer-house in which she was taking a cooler and was seating myself by her side. "Angela," I said, and if my voice was stern, well, whose wouldn't have been, "this is all perfect drivel." She seemed to come out of a reverie. She looked at me inquiringly. "I'm sorry, Bertie, I didn't hear. What were you talking drivel about?"
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