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The drain ran away before them, a long black tunnel, focussing in a remote jewel of light. It was like the Alley of Life, cramped and dark, and at the far end of it a little door opening on heaven. And across the door the boy seemed to see written the one word Nelson. He advanced into the breathing darkness, his eye on that guiding light.
Wonder if he's finished that Colonial History, that's to be his monument, he's been working on all his life, or if he's fallen in love? "'If he'd fall in love, he might stand more chance of finishing his history, replied a graybeard friend in deep didactic tones; 'he has material in plenty, but no vital stimulus for focussing his work.
Even the description of the moon as the bull of heaven falls within the domain of popular fancy. It is different in the days after Hammurabi, when political concentration leads to the focussing of intellectual life in the Euphrates Valley, with all the consequences that the establishment of a central priesthood, with growing powers over ever-increasing territory, involves.
With strain, elevating a candlestick: with pain, feeling on his right temple a contused tumescence: with attention, focussing his gaze on a large dull passive and a slender bright active: with solicitation, bending and downturning the upturned rugfringe: with amusement, remembering Dr Malachi Mulligan's scheme of colour containing the gradation of green: with pleasure, repeating the words and antecedent act and perceiving through various channels of internal sensibility the consequent and concomitant tepid pleasant diffusion of gradual discolouration.
Thompson," and her extreme graciousness made him just sensible enough to sit down before he murmured his fervent hopes for her happiness. "I shall take good care of him," said Mrs. Berry, focussing her eyes to the comprehension of the company. "Farewell, Penelope!" cried Richard. "I shall tell the police everywhere to look out for your lord." "Oh my dears! good-bye, and Heaven bless ye both!"
It has a correctness such as no image- forming means by lenses can have. It is literally rectigraphic, rectilinear, it needs no focussing, and it takes a wide angle with equal effect. Even pinhole snapshots are possible where the light is abundant, with a ten to fifteen second exposure. "That picture, McLoughlin, was taken yesterday at Hanford's.
"Well, at least," said Tom, joining in the laugh, "you must acknowledge, too, that I go off by myself and pick up my wild flowers and green things, and I'm not bothering round focussing every living thing and pointing my little machine at every freak in nature that I see." "All right," said Jasper, good-naturedly, "but you have the strap round your neck all the same, Tom."
I might have been the prize scholar, instead of Ralph, if I had only worked, if I had only realized what this focussing day of graduation meant!
One by one there arrived to help him a number of able men, with all the various abilities that the changing situation required. There was such a focussing of factors that the whole matter appeared to have been previously rehearsed. No sooner had Bell appeared on the stage than his supporting players, each in his turn, received his cue and took part in the action of the drama.
And together with this psychological fact goes the other stubborn feature of the mind, which no sermon can remove, that the focussing of the attention on the sexual problems, even in their repelling form, starts too often a reaction of glands and with it sexual thoughts which ultimately lead to a desire for satisfaction.
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