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Updated: May 14, 2025
How curious it was that this was a human being! What Brangwen thought himself to be, how meaningless it was, confronted with the reality of him.
The freckled child, returning from breakfast, waylaid the passers with a buttery clutch, saying in a loud whisper, "He's sick;" and once the conductor came by, asking for tickets. She shrank into her corner and looked out of the window at the flying trees and houses, meaningless hieroglyphs of an endlessly unrolled papyrus.
He passed his hand over his protruding forehead, lost for a moment in deepest reflection. Then, "Have you ever heard of the Sphyx?" he asked. "It seems to me that Ponce de Leon wrote of something " I began, hesitating. "Yes, the famous lines in the third volume which have set so many wise men guessing. This is the Sphyx." A silence; then I said, "Those lines are meaningless to me."
I set down my cup and turned my attention to the "Personal" column on the front page of the journal. A paragraph appeared therein conceived as follows: ZAGAZIG-Z-a-g-a;-z:-I:-g;z-a,g; A-,z;i:G,-z:a;g-A,z-i;-gz A;gaZ-i;g-:a z i g I stared across at my friend in extreme bewilderment. "But, Smith!" I cried, "these messages are utterly meaningless!" "Not at all," he rapped back.
"If I fail, then, it will be because I'm unfit and I'll go under, and never be heard of again.... But I shan't fail. It seems to me the very fact that I want to go straight is proof enough that I've something inherently decent in me to build on." "I do believe that, and yet..." She lowered her head and began to trace a meaningless pattern on the cloth before she resumed.
Other sheets were covered with meaningless phrases, the crude drawings that the writing man makes mechanically while he is thinking over his work, and arabesques such as we found on the blotting pad. "What the blazes is all this?" muttered Jaffery, his fingers in his beard.
With what concrete pangs of acute mental distress would this person ever behold his immaculate progenitor taking part in a similar sit-round game with an assembly of worthy mandarins, the one asking questions of meaningless import, as "Why did they Hangkow?" and another replying in an equal strain of no consecutiveness, "In order to T'in Tung!"
No one met them, though distant shapes rushed athwart the gloom, yelping to each other, and near by, legs of runners moved under a rolling cloud of smoke as if their bodies were embedded and swept along in the wrack: all confused, hurried, and meaningless, like the uproar of gongs, horns, conches, whistling bullets, crackers, and squibs that sputtering, string upon string, flower upon rising flower of misty red gold explosion, ripped all other noise to tatters.
Again he could only suggest expert help from the police but this time he added to his suggestion the remark that he understood there was nothing for the police to take hold of no clue, no signs of foul play. "Not yet," agreed Allerdyke. "But there may be. Well, I'm afraid that register is no good. It's meaningless. A list of names conveys nothing except for future reference.
If I caught myself walking fast or indulging in some boyish prank I would check myself, saying in my heart: "You must not forget that you are an independent scholar. You are a boy no longer." I was free to loaf, but I worked harder than ever. I was either in an exalted state of mind or pining away under a spell of yearning and melancholy of causeless, meaningless melancholy.
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