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The Journal of a Disappointed Man
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W. N. P. Barbellion
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We
put
on
our
boots
and
socks
(our
feet
seemed
to
have
swollen
to
a
very
large
size)
and
wandered
downstream
to
a
little
white
house,
a
gamekeeper's
cottage,
where
the
old
woman
gave
us
cream
and
milk
and
home-made
bread
in
her
beautiful
old
kitchen
with
open
hearth.
China
dogs,
of
course,
and
on
the
wall
an
old
painting
representing
the
person
of
a
page
boy
(so
she
said)
who
was
once
employed
up
at
the
squire's.
An
unwholesome
atmosphere
of
pigs
pervaded
the
garden,
but
as
this
is
not
pretty
I
ought
to
leave
it
out....
June
14.
Brilliantly
fine.
Went
by
the
early
train
to
S----.
Walked
to
the
ivy
bridge
and
then
waded
upstream
to
the
great
slab
of
rock
where
I
spread
myself
in
the
sun
as
before.
The
experiment
was
so
delightful
it
is
worth
repeating
a
hundred
times.
In
this
position
I
read
of
the
decline
and
fall
of
Trilobites,
of
the
Stratigraphy
of
the
Lias
and
so
on.
Geology
is
a
very
crushing
science,
yet
I
enjoyed
my
existence
this
morning
with
the
other
flies
about
that
stream.
June
20.
Sat
at
Liverpool
University
for
the
practical
exam.
Zoology,
Board
of
Education.
At
the
close
the
other
students
left
but
I
went
on
working.
Prof.
Herdman
asked
me
if
I
had
finished.
I
said
"No,"
so
he
gave
me
a
little
more
time.
Later
he
came
up
again,
and
again
I
said
"No,"
but
he
replied
that
he
was
afraid
I
must
stop.
"What
could
you
do
further?"
he
asked,
picking
up
a
dish
of
plankton.
I
pointed
out
a
Sagitta,
an
Oikopleura,
and
a
Noctiluca,
and
he
replied,
"Of
course
I
put
in
more
than
you
were
expected
to
identify
in
the
time,
so
as
to
make
a
choice
possible."
Then
he
complimented
me
on
my
written
papers
which
were
sent
in
some
weeks
ago,
and
looking
at
my
practical
work
he
added,
"And
this,
too,
seems
to
be
quite
excellent."
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