They Twinkled Like Jewels - The Original Classic Edition
Author | : |
Publisher | : Tebbo |
Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 2012-04-02 |
ISBN-13 | : 1743474318 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781743474310 |
Rating | : 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Download or read book They Twinkled Like Jewels - The Original Classic Edition written by and published by Tebbo. This book was released on 2012-04-02 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of They Twinkled Like Jewels. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by Philip Jos Farmer, which is now, at last, again available to you. Enjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside They Twinkled Like Jewels: I would prefer staying at home for laboratory work, but since I can help my starving children-I am not joking-so much more by coming to a foreign land and working at something that will put food in their mouths, I do it. ...And when the salesman rose and placed his papers in his case and patted Jack on the head and bent his opaque rose spectacles at him and said good-by and that he wouldn't be coming back because he was going out of town to stay, Jack was not able to move or say a thing. ...If he had been man enough to grapple with himself, to wrestle as Jacob did with the angel and not let loose until he had felled the problem, he could be teaching philosophy in a quiet little college, as his father did. ...It was like seeing from the wrong end of a pair of binoculars that lengthened and lengthened while the man with the long-sought-for treasure in his hand flew in the opposite direction as if he had been connected to the horizon by a rubber band and somebody had released it and he was flying towards it, away from Jack. ...Some time later-he didn't know or care when, for he had lost all conception or even definition of time-he looked up the deep everlengthening shaft of himself into the eyes of another Mr.