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ON NOTHING &
KINDRED SUBJECTS

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By Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953)

«J "I knew a man once, Maurice, who was at Oxford for three
^^1^ years, and after that went down with no degree. At College,
while his friends were seeking for Truth in funny brown
German Philosophies, Sham Religions, stinking bottles and
identical equations, he was lying on his back in Eynsham
meadows thinking of Nothing, and got the Truth by this
parallel road of his much more quickly than did they by theirs; for the asses are
still seeking, mildly disputing, and, in a cultivated manner, following the gleam,
so that they have become in their Donnish middleage a nuisance and a pest;
while he-that other-with the Truth very fast and firm at the end of a leather
thong is dragging her sliding, whining and crouching on her four feet, dragging
her reluctant through the world, even into the broad daylight where Truth most
hates to be." - Hilaire Belloc

Read by Ray Clare; total running time: 06:03:31. Dedicated Proof-Listener/Meta-
Coordinator/Cataloging: Karen Merline.

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Author photo is a press photograph from the George Grantham Bain collection, which was purchased by the
Library of Congress in 1948. According to the library, there are no known restrictions on the use of these
photos. Cover image by Petr Kratochvil. http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/view-image.php7image
=8582&picture=sandstone-brick-wall. Cover design by Janette Brown. This design is in the public domain.

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