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The Journal of a Disappointed Man
·
W. N. P. Barbellion
44
March
4.
...
The
Doctor's
orders
"Cease
Work"
have
brought
on
in
an
aggravated
form
my
infatuation
for
zoological
research.
I
lie
in
bed
and
manufacture
rolling
periods
in
praise
of
it,
I
get
dithyrambic
over
the
zoologists
themselves--Huxley,
Wallace,
Brooks,
Lankester.
I
chortle
to
reflect
that
in
zoology
there
are
no
stock
exchange
ambitions,
there
is
no
mention
of
slum
life,
Tariff
Reform
is
not
included.
In
the
repose
of
the
spacious
laboratory
by
the
seaside
or
in
the
halls
of
some
great
Museum,
life
with
its
vulgar
struggles,
its
hustle
and
obscenity,
scarcely
penetrates.
Behind
those
doors,
life
flows
slowly,
deeply.
I
am
ascetic
and
long
for
the
monastic
seclusion
of
a
student's
life.
March
5.
From
One
Maiden
Lady
to
Another.
(Authentic)
"My
dear
Sister,--You
have
been
expecting
to
hear
from
me
I
know,
I
have
had
inflammation
to
my
eyes
twice
in
3
weeks
so
I
thought
I
had
better
let
the
Doctor
see
and
he
says
it
is
catarrh
of
the
eyes
and
windpipe.
I
am
inhaling
and
taking
lozenges
and
medicine.
You
will
be
sorry
to
learn
Leonora
Mims
has
been
taken
to
a
Sanatorium
with
Diptheria,
we
heard
yesterday,
she
is
better,
poor
Mrs.
Mims
herself
quite
an
invalid,
she
has
to
walk
with
a
stick,
I
believe
you
know
she
has
had
to
have
her
breast
cut
off,
they
keep
a
servant
as
she
can't
do
anything,
old
Mrs.
Point
is
87
I
think
it
is
so
they
too
have
a
lot
of
trouble,
Fred
Mims
has
just
got
married....
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