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Round The World In Any Number Of Days (1914) (Paperback)
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Round The World In Any Number Of Days (1914) (Paperback)
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Port Said: July 3 We call for the mails at Taranto and then nothing
happens till we get to Port Said ? except that the stewards who had
never been to sea before have recovered from seasickness, and the
passengers are all well enough now to organise games and
competitions in order to break the monotony, or to mar the peace
(whichever you like), of the voyage. At Port Said we coal. Black
men do it, singing the whole time. When one has seen the black men
coal at Port Said one realizes how the Egyptian pyramids were
built. I don't mean how the engineering was done, but the kind of
way in which the people who had to make bricks without straw set
about it; for in the East nothing changes. Conjurers and
fortune-tellers come on board. I have my fortune told. I am amazed
by the accurate description of my character and theprobability of
the foretold fortune, until a friend of mine has his fortune told,
and on comparing notes, we find the man told us word for word the
same thing about our characteristics and fortune, past, present,
and future. On reflection, I see that the way to tell people's
character is to have one list of characteristics and to use it for
every one without the slightest variation. It is bound to succeed.
For instance, supposing Falstaff and Hamlet had their fortunes told
by this Nubian, I imagine he would have told Hamlet's character as
follows (I assume Hamlet and Falstaff to be on board incognito): ?
You are not so fortunate as you seem. You have a great deal of
sense, but more sense than knowledge. You can give admirable advice
to other people. Your judgment is excellent as regards others, but
bad as regards yourself. You never take your own good advice. You
are fond of your friends. You prefer talk to action. You suffer
from indecision. You are fond of th...
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