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by Arthur Christopher Benson
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At Large Summary
| "Yes, of course it is an experiment! But it is made in corpore vili. It is not irreparable, and there is no reason, more's the pity, why I should not please myself. I will ask - it is a rhetorical question which needs no answer - what is a hapless bachelor to do, who is professionally occupied and tied down in a certain place for just half the year? What is he to do with the other half? I cannot live on in my college rooms, and I am not compelled to do so for economy." |
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| What no doubt heightened the pleasure for me was that I had been passing through a somewhat dreary period. Things had been going wrong, had tied themselves into knots. Several people whose fortunes had been bound up with my own had been acting perversely and unreasonably--at least I chose to think so. My own work had come to a standstill. I had pushed on perhaps too fast, and I had got into a bare sort of moorland tract of life, and could not discern the path in the heather. There did not seem any particular task for me to undertake; the people whom it was my business to help, if I could, seemed unaccountably and aggravatingly prosperous and independent. |
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| A magnificent composition written with great genius. Benson has wonderfully illustrated his own personal experiences and views about different aspects of life. It satisfies the readers with its interesting descriptions and author’s fantastic responses to unusual conditions. Marvellous and charismatic! |
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