The City of Beautiful Nonsense
The City of Beautiful Nonsense
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Without laughter in it, the voice is a broken reed ; without laughter in it, the heart is a stone, dullened by a flaw; without laughter in it, even a prayer has not the lightness or the buoyancy of breath to rise heavenwards.
Can there be one woman in the world who has never prayed to St. Anthony in all seriousness for some impossible request which, by rights, she should have enquired for at the nearest lost property office for a lost lock of hair that was not her own one of those locks of hair... that she ties to the wardrobe 254 THE CITY OF BEAUTIFUL NONSENSE in the morning and combs out with all the serious- ness in the world? Surely there must have been one out of the thousands? Then why not for a lost sense of humour? There is no office in the world that will return you such valuable property as that, once it has slipped your fingers. He has the sense himself, has St. Anthony. Think of the things he has found for you in your own hands, the jewels that he has discovered for you clasped about your own neck!
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Without laughter in it, the voice is a broken reed ; without laughter in it, the heart is a stone, dullened by a flaw; without laughter in it, even a prayer has not the lightness or the buoyancy of breath to rise heavenwards.
Can there be one woman in the world who has never prayed to St. Anthony in all seriousness for some impossible request which, by rights, she should have enquired for at the nearest lost property office for a lost lock of hair that was not her own one of those locks of hair... that she ties to the wardrobe 254 THE CITY OF BEAUTIFUL NONSENSE in the morning and combs out with all the serious- ness in the world? Surely there must have been one out of the thousands? Then why not for a lost sense of humour? There is no office in the world that will return you such valuable property as that, once it has slipped your fingers. He has the sense himself, has St. Anthony. Think of the things he has found for you in your own hands, the jewels that he has discovered for you clasped about your own neck!
What to read after The City of Beautiful Nonsense?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Thurston, E. Temple (Ernest Temple), 1879-1933 to read onlineMoreLess
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