LADY CROOM: But surely a hermit who takes a newspaper is not a hermit in whom one can have complete confidence. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. If I am promised a fountain I expect it to come with water. r/ArcadianAtlas: The subreddit for the Tactical RPG Arcadian Atlas. LADY CROOM: You surely do not supply an hermitage without a hermit? NOAKES: It is, I assure you, a very habitable cottage, properly founded and drained, two rooms and a closet under a slate roof and a stone chimney. (Pointing through the window) What is that cowshed? What you painted as forest is a mean plantation, your greenery is mud, your waterfall is wet mud, and your mount is an opencast mine for the mud that was lacking in the dell. My lake is drained to a ditch for no purpose I can understand, unless it be that snipe and curlew have deserted three counties so that they may be shot in our swamp. You do not suppose, my lady, that if all of Archimedes had been hiding in the great library of Alexandria, we would be at a loss for a corkscrew?” Mathematical discoveries glimpsed and lost to view will have their time again. Ancient cures for diseases will reveal themselves once more. The missing plays of Sophocles will turn up piece by piece, or be written again in another language. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it. The procession is very long and life is very short. We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. Seven plays from Aeschylus, seven from Sophocles, nineteen from Euripides, my lady! You should no more grieve for the rest than for a buckle lost from your first shoe, or for your lesson book which will be lost when you are old. Oh, Septimus! - can you bear it? All the lost plays of the Athenians! Two hundred at least by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides - thousands of poems - Aristotle's own library!.How can we sleep for grief? the enemy who burned the great library of Alexandria without so much as a fine for all that is overdue.
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