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Title: Of all things
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Benchley, Robert, 1889-1945
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Publisher: London : John Lane, The Bodley Head
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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e surrounding medium, met the surfaceseparating two media and were in part reflected,travelling back from the surface into the firstmedium again with the velocity with which theyapproached it, as depicted in Fig, lo. This causedthe echo for which the Lake of Zug is justly famous. The twilight began to deepen and from far abovecame the twinkling signals of, first, Bootes, thenComa Berenices, followed, awhile later, by UrsaMajor and her little brother, Ursa Minor, The stars are clear to-night, he sighed, Iwonder if they are visible from the dacite elevationon which SHE lives. His was an untrained mind. His only schoolhad been the Eleatic School, the contention ofwhich was that the true explanation of things liesin the conception of a universal unity of being, orthe AU-ness of One, But he knew what he liked. In the calm light of the stars he felt as if a ubanhad been lifted from his heart, 5 ubans being equalto I quat, 6 quats to i ammat and 120 ammats to I SOS. IN ENCYCLOPAEDIA LAND 147
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She turned like a fright-ened aard-vark. (Male,greatly reduced.) He was free again.Turning, he walked swiftlydown into the valley, passingreturning peasants with theirbaa-poots, and soon camein sight of the shining lampsof the small but carefullybuilt pooroos which linedthe road. Reaching the corner hesaw the village epi peeringover the tree-tops, andswarms of cicada, withthe toothed famoras oftheir anterior legs min-gling in a sleepy drone,like so many cichlids. Itwas aU very home-like tothe wanderer. Suddenly there ap-peared on a neighbouringeminence a party ofguisards, such as, duringthe Saturnalia, and fromthe Nativity till the Epi-phany, were accustomed to J. ^ ^. , . ,, Barnaby Bernard Wccnix. disport themselves m odd (i777-1829)

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