Wintering Over: Postcards From The Hut
Introducing: Dispatch From The Nova Tuskhut
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Wintering Over In The Nova Tukshut
"Heart Of Darkness" (Youth And Two Other Stories)
THERE REMAINED A RUDE TABLE - a plank on two posts; a heap of rubbish reposed in a dark corner, and by the door I picked up a book. It had lost its covers, and the pages had been thumbed into a state of extremely dirty softness; but the back had been lovingly stitched afresh with white cotton thread, which looked clean yet. It was an extraordinary find. Its title was, "An Inquiry into some Points of Seamanship", by a man Towser, Towson - some such name - Master in his Majesty's Navy. The matter looked dreary reading enough, with illustrative diagrams and repulsive tables of figures, and the copy was sixty years old. I handled this amazing antiquity with the greatest possible tenderness, lest it should dissolve in my hands.
- Joseph Conrad, “Heart of Darkness” in “Youth and Two Other Stories”
1926, Garden City - N.J.: Doubleday, Page & Company
Book #3
"Text Book of Vertebrate Zoology"
WITHIN recent years the laboratory method has become the basis of instruction in every science. The student is expected to find out a certain number of fundamental facts directly from nature, but while this has in itself great value as a training in observation, the fullest benefit of the study is not obtained unless there be a comprehension of the bearing of the facts observed. Observation and uncorrelated facts do not make a science.- J.S. Kinglsey, “Text Book of Vertebrate Zoology”
1899, New York: Henry Holt and Company
