5 hours ago · 11 min read2152 words · Writing · hide · 0 comments

I'm so excited about two things here. First, I get to share with you this banger of a personal essay by Max Beerbohm. You can read my thoughts about it in this post. Second, since I discovered the Justif library last week, I've been trying to figure out how I can use it here. Well, this is it! Text originally from Project Gutenberg. Something Defeasible by Max Beerbohm July, 1919 The cottage had a good trim garden in front of it, and another behind it. I might not have noticed it at all but for them and their emerald greenness. Yet itself (I saw when I studied it) was worthy of them. Sussex is rich in fine Jacobean cottages; and their example, clearly, had not been lost on the builder of this one. Its proportions had a homely grandeur. It was long and wide and low. It was quite a yard long. It had three admirable gables. It had a substantial and shapely chimney-stack. I liked the look that it had of honest solidity all over, nothing anywhere scamped in the workmanship of it. It looked…

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