14-09-28 FROM my discourse with Mr. Lloyd, and from the above reported conference between Bessie and Abbot, I gathered enough of hope to suffice as a motive for wishing to get well: a change seemed near,- I desired and waited it in silence. It tarried, howev...

14-09-11 For a period of four months at least this was exactly the way it worked out. After meeting her in this fashion, hewas devoting not an inconsiderable portion of his free time to attempting to interest her to the point where shewould take as much inte...

14-09-05 Prepared as Clyde was to dislike all this, so steeped had he been in the moods and maxims antipathetic toanything of its kind, still so innately sensual and romantic was his own disposition and so starved where sex was concerned, that instead of bei...

14-09-05 And as conditions stood, the extraordinary economic and social inexperience of the Griffiths -- Asa and Elvira-dovetailedall too neatly with his dreams. For neither Asa nor Elvira had the least knowledge of the actualcharacter of the work upon which...

14-09-04 Zen Sonnet Elizabeth Spires It was April and we were reading the book about Zen you were writing your Zen poems and we were talking about the moment we were in and I was thinking thoughts that were not Zen: how I know too much too little to teach yo...

14-08-19 Once upon a time two peasants attempted to pass each other, and their sledges became entangled. One cried, Give me room, I must get to town as quickly as possible. The other said, You give me room, I must get home as quickly as possible. Thus for a...

14-08-13 A traveler came to a small Middle Western town. He decided to stay for a few days. When he was about to write his name on the hotel register, he saw a bedbug crawling across the page. It is really unbearable, he said, flinging down the pen. I've bee...

14-07-30 When the sick man entered the consulting room, the doctor smiled and said: I am glad to see that you look much better today. Yes, I followed the direction on your medicine bottle, replied the sick man. The doctor asked: What were they? The sick man...

14-07-21 A new firm arranged to employ a secretary. The manager decided to hold a psychological test for choosing a good one. Three girls had applied for the post. They should be examined by a psychologist. The psychologist said to the first girl, Now listen...

14-07-08 High-waisted jeans are back in, and people still drink a lot of coffee -- but that's pretty much all our adult lives have in common with the poker-playing, apartment-swapping lives of the characters on Friends. 许多年过去，高腰牛仔裤又开始流行，人们...