They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service and that really I should be surprised to still be alive.

C. S. Forester

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Today is Sunday, sir," said Bush, simply. by C. S. Forester

Today is Sunday, sir," said Bush, simply.

The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accord, down my arm and out of my fountain pen in a torrent of six thousand words a day.

pen words down day

The doctor who applied a stethoscope to my heart was not satisfied. I was told to get my papers with the clerk in the outer hall. I was medically rejected.

doctor who satisfied heart

There is still need to think and plan, but on a different scale,... by C. S. Forester

There is still need to think and plan, but on a different scale, and along different lines.

plan need think different

With two people and luggage on board she draws four inches of water. Two canoe paddles will move her along at a speed reasonable enough in moderate currents.

will speed water people