The Definite Object
Book Description
In the writing of books, as all the world knows, two things are above all other things essential the one is to know exactly when and where to leave off, and the other to be equally certain when and where to begin. Now this book, naturally enough, begins with Mr. Brimberly swhiskers; begins at that moment when he coughed and pulled do Ti his waistcoat for the first time. And yet (since action is as...
MoreIn the writing of books, as all the world knows, two things are above all other things essential the one is to know exactly when and where to leave off, and the other to be equally certain when and where to begin. Now this book, naturally enough, begins with Mr. Brimberly swhiskers; begins at that moment when he coughed and pulled do Ti his waistcoat for the first time. And yet (since action is as necessary to the success of a book as to life itself) it should perhaps begin more properly at the psychological moment when Mr. Brimberly coughed and pulled down the garment aforesaid for the third time, since it is then that the real action of this story commences. Be that as it may, it is beyond all question that nowhere in this wide world could there possibly be found just such another pair of whiskers as those which adorned the plump cheeks of I r. Brimberly ;without them he might have been only an ordinary man, but, possessing them, he was the very incarnation of all that a butler could possibly be. And what whiskers these were! So soft, so fleecy, so purely white, that at times they almost seemed like the wings of cherubim striving to soar away and bearM
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)
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