By W. Somerset Maugham
|The Lotus Eater |
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|The Lotus Eater |
|Most people, the vast majority in fact, subscribe the lives that circumstances have thrust upon them, and though some repine, looking for upon |
|themselves as round pegs in square holes, and think that if things had been various they might have made a much wear showing, the |
|greater part accept their lot, if non with serenity, at all(a) events with resignation. They are like train-cars travelling forever on |
|the same rails. They go backwards and forwards, backwards and forwards, inevitably, till they can go no longer and then are sold |
|as scrap-iron. It is not often that you find a man who has foolhardyly taken the course of his life into his own hands. When you do, it is |
|worth patch having a good look at him.
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|That was why I was curious to meet Thomas Wilson. It was an interesting and a bold thing he had done. Of course the end was not stock-still |
|and until the experiment was concluded it was impossible to call it successful. But from what I had heard it seemed he must be an odd |
| enlighten of fellow and I thought I should like to populate him. I had been told he was reserved, but I had a whim that with patience and |
|tact I could persuade him to confide in me. I wanted to hear the facts from his own lips. People exaggerate, they lie with to romanticize,|
|and I was quite prepared to discover that his story was not nearly so singular as I had been take to believe. |
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