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Eric Lease Morgan May 27, 2019 Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 27 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 19092 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 86 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 16 man 10 old 7 like 7 Ireland 7 God 6 great 5 life 5 irish 4 little 4 Dublin 3 time 3 thing 3 second 3 play 3 mind 3 day 3 art 3 Mr. 3 MAURTEEN 3 MARY 3 England 3 Blake 2 young 2 world 2 woman 2 wise 2 thought 2 merchant 2 image 2 child 2 Wilde 2 TEIG 2 Synge 2 SHEMUS 2 PUPIL 2 PEASANT 2 OONA 2 Morris 2 Mary 2 MAN 2 London 2 Henley 2 Ellis 2 CUCHULAIN 2 CATHLEEN 2 ALEEL 1 year 1 tell 1 symbol 1 king Top 50 lemmatized nouns; "What is discussed?" --------------------------------------------- 2630 man 959 time 933 life 918 day 857 thing 825 woman 814 world 699 mind 654 house 616 hand 612 year 596 eye 580 heart 576 people 542 thought 512 night 510 door 477 nothing 464 art 453 way 449 child 443 head 441 book 437 place 435 friend 427 word 422 love 418 soul 386 face 374 dream 371 story 362 poet 362 moment 360 one 356 image 336 body 331 fire 329 light 326 beauty 315 something 313 wind 311 father 299 voice 280 sea 277 room 274 work 270 death 265 water 260 wood 256 play Top 50 proper nouns; "What are the names of persons or places?" -------------------------------------------------------------- 4762 _ 376 God 320 Paul 320 Ireland 281 Ruttledge 211 Mr. 174 CATHLEEN 168 FIRST 162 Dublin 155 MARY 154 MERCHANT 135 ALEEL 128 BRUIN 121 SHEMUS 118 Blake 108 London 108 Charlie 103 Sligo 102 FATHER 100 Irish 98 BRIDGET 96 Wilde 95 Ward 94 John 94 HART 93 Hanrahan 92 Shelley 92 MAURTEEN 90 de 90 England 88 TEIG 87 King 87 CHILD 84 Shakespeare 83 Jerome 82 OONA 82 Father 81 Morris 80 Synge 79 Dante 77 Mary 75 PUPIL 71 PEASANT 70 la 69 Yeats 68 Rose 67 MAN 67 Cuchulain 66 heaven 65 SHAWN Top 50 personal pronouns nouns; "To whom are things referred?" ------------------------------------------------------------- 9024 i 5982 he 5190 it 2918 you 2633 they 2044 him 2029 we 1954 me 1589 she 1436 them 860 us 705 her 359 himself 293 myself 290 one 208 itself 197 themselves 92 herself 58 ourselves 36 mine 31 his 30 yourself 22 theirs 18 yours 13 thee 12 hers 12 ''s 11 ours 10 oneself 3 ye 2 yourselves 2 you''re 2 delf 1 whereof 1 o 1 meself 1 je 1 bookshelf Top 50 lemmatized verbs; "What do things do?" --------------------------------------------- 17089 be 9331 have 2022 do 1976 come 1826 say 1680 go 1509 see 1484 make 1200 know 1089 think 914 find 854 give 822 take 774 tell 746 hear 632 seem 606 look 595 speak 591 call 578 write 560 begin 554 live 524 get 502 bring 472 put 472 grow 405 remember 390 pass 374 stand 373 become 360 sit 357 turn 352 leave 346 ask 339 die 331 keep 331 believe 329 read 317 fall 304 run 301 cry 276 understand 276 love 275 set 266 meet 266 let 261 move 255 talk 251 lie 244 hold Top 50 lemmatized adjectives and adverbs; "How are things described?" --------------------------------------------------------------------- 3735 not 1431 old 1359 so 1178 great 1063 out 992 more 942 little 936 now 919 up 677 then 671 never 666 other 639 many 638 away 635 there 634 long 591 only 562 own 552 too 550 good 549 well 542 first 531 very 519 young 518 down 516 even 514 again 504 much 479 always 432 most 413 as 405 still 402 last 395 once 394 yet 361 certain 345 new 336 full 319 here 319 ever 298 perhaps 287 all 285 beautiful 278 few 274 irish 267 wise 266 in 261 white 248 alone 240 such Top 50 lemmatized superlative adjectives; "How are things described to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 127 good 108 most 71 great 38 bad 28 least 26 old 21 fine 18 near 14 deep 11 high 9 happy 7 young 6 late 6 dear 5 strong 5 strange 5 noble 5 mighty 5 handsome 5 early 4 wild 4 manif 4 l 4 hard 4 eld 3 wise 3 wicked 3 wealthy 3 stupid 3 small 3 rare 3 poor 3 new 3 lovely 3 long 3 brave 3 Most 2 unlucki 2 sweet 2 soon 2 simple 2 low 2 j 2 furth 2 feeble 2 fair 2 dark 2 bitter 2 big 2 able Top 50 lemmatized superlative adverbs; "How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 324 most 29 well 8 least 1 long 1 latest 1 greatest Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Top 50 URLs; "What is hyperlinked from this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------- Top 50 email addresses; "Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6 eyes were full 6 heart is old 5 _ come away 5 _ goes _ 5 _ goes out 5 people do not 5 years went by 4 _ do n''t 4 _ is _ 4 door stands open 4 men do not 4 mind is smitten 3 _ do not 3 _ go out 3 _ puts out 3 art has never 3 art is happy 3 art is not 3 face were strange 3 heart grows old 3 hearts are wild 3 man came in 3 man is not 3 woman had not 3 world ''s more 2 _ comes forward 2 _ comes in 2 _ coming out 2 _ is about 2 _ standing up 2 art has trance 2 art is art 2 art is dream 2 art is sensuous 2 art seemed so 2 art was not 2 arts are almost 2 arts were not 2 book is full 2 book seems dull 2 days did not 2 door stand open 2 door stands wide 2 face is pale 2 faces are alike 2 faces are all 2 faces go unscratched 2 friend was york 2 friends are sweet 2 hand had strength Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 arts were not less 2 eyes have no preference 2 friends were no pre 2 life had no time 2 man is not ready 1 art is not expressive 1 art is not less 1 art is not victimage 1 art was not more 1 eyes were not blue 1 friend did not once 1 friend was not interested 1 hand is no different 1 hands were not beautiful 1 life was not expensive 1 man is not sin 1 men had no longer 1 men have no delight 1 mind had no lyrical 1 people are not numerous 1 people have no imagination 1 people were not so 1 things is not enough 1 thought has no corporeal 1 time had not yet 1 time has not come-- 1 words are not quite 1 world is no more 1 world is not altogether 1 world is not old Sizes of items; "Measures in words, how big is each item?" ---------------------------------------------------------- 71630 33505 57182 32884 46720 33094 40107 10459 37729 38877 32448 33348 22413 5795 21673 38349 21577 6865 17938 36865 14784 5793 14237 5167 13396 33338 11773 30652 11496 32233 10890 8557 10804 33087 9622 32491 7811 5794 7296 43611 6907 30488 6648 33321 4907 5168 4696 7448 4399 15153 3358 31959 3030 33430 Readability of items; "How difficult is each item to read?" ----------------------------------------------------------- 99.0 33321 98.0 38877 97.0 36865 96.0 32491 93.0 31959 88.0 32233 87.0 10459 83.0 5793 79.0 5795 78.0 33348 76.0 33338 72.0 6865 72.0 43611 70.0 33505 69.0 33087 68.0 8557 68.0 33094 67.0 32884 61.0 5794 102.0 5168 102.0 7448 102.0 38349 101.0 15153 101.0 30488 101.0 30652 101.0 33430 100.0 5167 Item summaries; "In a narrative form, how can each item be abstracted?" ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 10459 little bright-eyed old man, who lived in a leaky and one-roomed cabin he said, in dark clothes like people of our own time, who stood about a to her father, "Go and ask him to come in and dine." The old man went old tax-gatherer got up to go, and my friend said, "I hope we will have man insisted that he had said it for Byrne''s good; and went on to tell us, it is said, day and night, like bats upon an old tree; and that we My old Mayo woman told me one day that something very bad had come rocking her, when a woman of the Sidhe (the faeries) came in, and said said, ''but come to the house with us.'' We went home with them, and sat friend asked, "How wee was she?" And the old woman said, "Well now, she When he came in the old woman said, "Your brother 15153 bowl of primroses on the sill of the window._ MAURTEEN BRUIN, FATHER setting the table for supper._ MAIRE BRUIN _sits on the settle reading As be the hearts of birds, till children come. Remember, they may steal new-married brides Upon May Eve. MAIRE BRUIN _(going over to the window and taking the flowers from the Great power to the good people on May Eve. MAURTEEN BRUIN. [_A knock at the door._ MAIRE BRUIN _opens it and then goes to the [A _knock at the door._ MAIRE BRUIN _opens it and then takes a sod of [SHAWN BRUIN _comes over to her and leads her to the settle._ But you work on because your heart is old. But you are wise because your heart is old. Because you are so young and little a child I bid you, Maire Bruin, come to me. Some of the voices seem to come from within the house._ 30488 And love comes in at the eye; A cat-headed man out of Connaught go pacing and spitting by; I thought that no living man could have pushed me from the door, If I lived here a hundred years, could a worse thing come than that Till I could stand it no longer, and whipped off his head at a blow, When a man with a right to get it has come to ask for your head? He said that in twelve months more he would come again to this house And there''s not a man in the house that will close his eyes to-night, No, Conall is the best man here. [_A light gradually comes into the house from the sea, on which the [_A black cat-headed Man holds out the Helmet. [_He places the Helmet on CUCHULAIN''S head_] And these things I make prosper, till a day come that I know, 30652 A young man cried and kissed her hand Our courage breaks like an old tree in a black wind and dies; There was a young man with a pale face and red hair standing beside Queen Aoife had a son that was red haired and pale faced like herself, young man has Aoife''s face and hair, but he has Cuchullain''s eyes. As they go out Cuchullain & certain young Kings (Concobar, a man much older than Cuchullain, has come in through the Kings, Daire, a stout old man, is somewhat drunk.) Cuchullain sits in his great chair with certain of the young (Cuchullain comes down from his great chair. (He goes towards the door at back, followed by Young Man. He turns on (He goes out, followed by Young Man. The other Kings begin to follow He said a while ago that the young man was Aoife''s son. 31959 He loved strange thought I knew that horse play, knew it for a murderous thing. THOUGHTS UPON THE PRESENT STATE OF THE WORLD. THOUGHTS UPON THE PRESENT STATE OF THE WORLD. We thought it would outlive all future days. Come let us mock at the great Nor thought of the levelling wind. Come let us mock at the good There lurches past, his great eyes without thought Let the new faces play what tricks they will For all men love your worth; and I must rage All men have praised my strength but not my worth. And live among the ancient holy men, Come nearer me, that I may know how face NOTE ON ''THOUGHTS UPON THE PRESENT STATE OF THE WORLD'' SECTION SIX. NOTE ON THE NEW END TO ''THE KING''S THRESHOLD'' NOTE ON THE NEW END TO ''THE KING''S THRESHOLD'' was played with this new end. 32233 And dreamed of the long dim hair Passion-dimmed eyes and long heavy hair Come from a more dream-heavy land, And I dreamed my lost love came stealthily out of the wood Lilies of death-pale hope, roses of passionate dream. HANRAHAN SPEAKS TO THE LOVERS OF HIS SONGS IN COMING DAYS The great of the old times are among the Tribes of Danu, and are kings and near the top of the tree, a beautiful woman, like the Goddess of And when the man came the mother said to him, ''O beautiful woman, come with me to the marvellous land where one O beautiful woman, come with me!'' story of their love is one of the most beautiful of our old tales. loved him; and that if he would come into the country of the gods, where woman to whom the hair belongs.'' In the end, the young man, and not the 32491 Delight men''s eyes, when I awake some day Always we''d have the new friend meet the old, Were loved by him; the old storm-broken trees But I grow old among dreams, Like an old horse in a pound.'' That the heart grows old? That the heart grows old? That the heart grows old? The round green eyes and the long wavering bodies The dead man that I loved, A man confusedly in a half dream The young men every night applaud their Gaby''s laughing eye, And maybe there''ll be some young belle walk out to make men wild A young man when the old men are done talking Will say to an old man, ''Tell me of that lady Or an old man upon a winter''s night. More plain to the mind''s eye than any face An old man cocked his ear._ End in a beautiful man''s or woman''s body. 32884 little boys in the street mock at strangely-dressed people and at old men before he had time to answer I saw two people, a man and a woman, rising We know so little of man and of the world that we cannot be certain that Or like those whose shapes the poet sees in _The Triumph of Life_, coming a part of some great memory that renews the world and men''s thoughts age love and death and old age are an imaginative art. beauty by art and poetry, we shall live, when the body has passed away for but not in spirit and life, not in the real man, the imagination which the life of passing things; and almost certainly no great art, outside dreamed of so great a mystery in little things that they believed the It comes at a time when the imagination of the world is as ready, 33087 The little theatrical company I write my plays for had come to a west of The play professed to tell of the heroic life of ancient Ireland come to this certainty, what moves natural men in the arts is what moves can follow the thought of a man who is looking into the grate. WHY THE BLIND MAN IN ANCIENT TIMES WAS MADE A POET I knew an old man who had spent his whole life cutting hazel and privet so little does logic in the mere circumstance matter in the finest art, The men who imagined the arts were not less superstitious in religion, simple things have in the end a new aspect in our eyes, the Arts would I saw suddenly in the mind''s eye an old man, erect and a if not a religious belief like the spiritual arts, a life that has 33094 way men like himself burned a house, or won wives no more wonderful than that the story-teller would have thought it unworthy in so great a man, and of his people as great-bodied men with large movements, that seem, heart, and grow querulous and selfish, as men do who have played life The play professed to tell of the heroic life of ancient Ireland, come to this certainty: what moves natural men in the arts is what like an old peasant telling stories of the great famine or the hangings I saw suddenly in the mind''s eye an old man, erect and a little gaunt, days that a new intellectual life would begin, like that of Young a man''s thought about the world or stir his moral nature, for they but name the first modern of the old way who comes to mind--reaches the same 33321 The stage is any bare place in a room close to the wall. (speaking) The hour before dawn and the moon covered up. A young man with a lantern comes this way. (A man and a girl both in the costume of a past time, come in. No living man shall set his eyes upon you. Until this hour no ghost or living man And gathers to her breast a dreaming man. is unfolded, the Young Man leaves the stage.) stage the curtained bed or litter on which lies a man in his And thereupon, knowing what man he had killed, (a Woman of the Sidhe has entered and stands a little inside the door) (The Woman of the Sidhe moves round the crouching Ghost of Cuchulain (Their lips approach but Cuchulain turns away as Emer speaks.) That man is held to those whom he has loved A man but will give you his love. 33338 an art, where no thought or emotion has come to mind because another man of the Judgment Day." At other moments this man, condemned to the life of dead man." I imagine Keats to have been born with that thirst for luxury may win for Daemon an illustrious dead man; but now I add another thought: the Daemon comes not as like to like but seeking its own opposite, for man One night I heard a voice that said: "The love of God for every human soul soul has a plastic power, and can after death, or during life, should the from the living man or woman may be moulded by the souls of others as we remember only the events of life, for thoughts bred of longing and of of the mind, can the thought of the spirit come to us but little changed; 33348 great-uncle Mat Yeats and his big family of boys and girls; but I think went to a little two-storeyed house in a poor street where an old One day my father told me that a painter had said I was very opposite lived a school-master called O''Neill, and when a little boy told found a small, green-covered book given to my father by a Dublin man of or walking between school and home four times a day, for I came home in boys who passed his window every day and been told the names of the two My father had read me the story of the little boy murdered When I was a little boy, an old woman who had come to I said, "I would like to live here always, and perhaps some day I will." I remember, with a young man who was, I had been told, a school-master. 33430 Of silver hanging round lame Cola''s neck-And Cola seeing, knows the sign and comes. _Cola._ Mosada, it is then so much the worse. The dark still man, has come, and says ''tis sin. _Mosada._ The phantoms come; ha ha! _Second Inquisitor._ Round the stake _Mosada._ I come. _First Monk._ Will you not hear my last new song? _Second Monk._ Ebremar will stamp Thy sacred door, but Peter cried, _First Inquisitor._ Be still, I hear the step of Ebremar. _Ebremar._ I will not hear; the Moorish girl must die. _Ebremar._ The wages of sin is death. And yon few stars, grown dim like eyes of lovers _Ebremar._ Young Moorish girl, thy final hour is here, Among thy nation none shall know that I Safe on the breast of Vallence is thy head For night comes fast; look down on me, my love, _Ebremar._ Mosada! [_Enter Monks and Inquisitors._] 33505 "Tell those young men in Ireland that this great thing must go on. said the dull man, "would you not have given us time to read it?" "Oh no," "My God," said Henley, "I went five times a week for five hours a day and of every man he liked; he made me tell him long Irish stories and I was a little disappointed in the house, for Morris was an old man twenty years, a man of whom I have heard it said "He is always afraid that years have passed and I have seen no forcible young man of letters brave eyes; he was like some man, who serves a woman all his life without asking "or doing the world''s work"; and for certain years young Irish women were yes, the people seem to like _Arms and the Man_," said one of Mr Shaw''s 36865 Where by old thorn trees that man stood; Thereon a young man met his eye, Will never look again on known man''s face.'' They have gone about the world like wind, With his old thoughts King Guari went She need not be too comely--let it pass,'' And even old men''s eyes grew dim, this hand alone, And love comes in at the eye; Come, Teigue, what is the old book''s meaning when it says that there are whereby we master the kingdom of this world wither away, like green Let''s come away and find a better subject. I have more to think about than giving pennies to your like, so run away. (_Wise Man nods._) Every day men go out And all day long they cry, ''Come hither, Fool.'' My pupils said that they would find a man he is gone, but come in, everybody in the world, and look at me. 38349 _Thomas Ruttledge._ [_Coming out on steps._] Paul, are you _Jerome._ [_Going over to the place_ PAUL RUTTLEDGE _has _Paul Ruttledge._ You are getting blind, Jerome. _Charlie Ward._ We haven''t time to be thinking of troubles like people _Paul Ruttledge._ [_To_ CHARLIE WARD.] What are they going to do? _Paul Ruttledge._ Sabina, have you been always on the road with Charlie _Paul Ruttledge._ I am here, Father Jerome, but you''re talking to the _Paul Ruttledge._ I think, Father Jerome, you had better be getting [ALOYSIUS _goes out._ JEROME _stands by_ PAUL RUTTLEDGE, _holding his _Paul Ruttledge._ [_Touching_ JEROME''S _hand_.] I have always been a great _Paul Ruttledge._ No, the time has not come for you. PAUL RUTTLEDGE _comes in with_ CHARLIE WARD. _Paul Ruttledge._ This is Charlie Ward, my old friend. _Paul Ruttledge._ Colman and Aloysius will tell you all about it. _Paul Ruttledge._ [_Turning to_ ALOYSIUS _and_ CHARLIE WARD.] Yes, you see 38877 Wandering and singing like a wave of the sea-(_He goes out, his singing dies away._ MARY _comes in_. At every house door, that we buy men''s souls. Nailed like dead vermin to the doors of God. (_An old_ PEASANT WOMAN _comes forward, and he takes up a book and (_A sound of far-off horns seems to come from the heart of the Light. faery green, comes out of the wood and takes it away_.) (_A thin old arm comes round the door-post and knocks and beckons. And now the old man''s dreams are gone, Must live to be old like the wandering moon. "Men''s hearts of old were drops of flame "When God shall come from the sea with a sigh Like an army of old men longing for rest from the moan of the seas. It were sad to gaze on the blessed and no man I loved of old there; 43611 ''I know little of Joachim of Flora,'' I said, ''except that Dante set him I shall create a world where the whole lives of men He turned and said, looking at me with shining eyes: ''Jonathan Swift to time to turn over the books upon an old bookstall, and thinking, door was opened by an old over-dressed woman, who said, ''O, you are her old men looked at one another and followed her upstairs, passing doors The old woman said: ''Yes they have come at last; now she will be able ''We have been deceived by devils,'' said one of the old men, ''for the world likes them and takes possession of them, and so eternity comes and the oldest of the old men said: ''Lady, we have come to write down Then the oldest of the old men said in French to the woman who was 5167 SCENE--A room with lighted fire, and a door into the open air, Look out, and tell me if your father''s coming. (OONA, MARY, and CATHLEEN go Out. ALEEL looks defiantly at (TEIG lifts one arm slowly and points toward the door and begins You come to buy our souls? At every house door, that we buy men''s souls, Nailed like dead vermin to the doors of God. SECOND MERCHANT. COUNTESS CATHLEEN comes in leaning Upon ALEEL''s arm. (She goes to chapel door; ALEEL holds his clasped hands towards SECOND MERCHANT (looking into chapel door) (CATHLEEN wakes and comes to door of the chapel.) We are merchants, and we know the book of the world (The SECOND MERCHANT, who has been listening at the door, comes (An Old PEASANT WOMAN comes forward, and he takes up a book and I come to barter a soul for a great price. 5168 MAURTEEN BRUIN, SHAWN BRUIN, and BRIDGET BRUIN sit in the alcove of some remote time, and near them sits an old priest, FATHER MARY BRUIN stands by the door reading a book. As be the hearts of birds, till children come. dressed, perhaps in faery green, comes out of the wood and takes (A thin old arm comes round the door-post and knocks and But find the excellent old way through love, Come, faeries, take me out of this dull house! Faeries, come take me out of this dull world, Because your heart is old. But you are wise because your heart is old. Bring it me, old father. Child, how old are you? Stay and come with me, newly-married bride, I bid you, Mary Bruin, come to me. I hear them sing, "Come, newly-married bride, Come, to the woods and waters and pale lights." (MARY BRUIN dies, and the CHILD goes.) 5793 Hanrahan went to the man of the house and said, ''I got your message''; said the man of the house, and Hanrahan turned his eyes from the old man ''There''s time enough, Red Hanrahan,'' said the man of the house. and withered like a bird''s claw on Hanrahan''s hand, and said: ''It is not stop with us after all, Hanrahan''; and the old man said: ''He will stop And once Hanrahan said as a man would say in a dream, ''It is time for is a long time you have been coming to us, Hanrahan the learned man and the second old woman rose up with the stone in her hands, and she said man said, ''I will never turn away Hanrahan of the poets from my door,'' then, asking him for a song, but the man of the house said it was no house said to the young men, they would all know what dancing was like 5794 door had closed, and the peacock curtain, glimmering like many-coloured see,'' said Michael Robartes, ''that you are still fond of incense, and fallen into a profound dream-like reverie in which I heard him the grey and white doves.'' In the midst of my dream I saw him hold but the divine powers would only appear in beautiful shapes, which what men called the moods; and worked all great changes in the world; faint sigh into men''s minds and then changing their thoughts and hands a little chainless censer of bronze, wrought into the likeness have never heard the like; and every moment the dance was more they fell, shaping into the likeness of living beings of an wave of passion, that seemed like the soul of the dance moving within robes, their upturned faces looking to my imagination like hollow looked, a little crowd hurried out of the door and began gathering 5795 the tub and began to beat the door with it, till the lay brother came ''Can you tell me,'' said the knight, ''if the old man to whom the pigs Then he laid the heads in a heap before the knight, and said: ''O great ''I live in a land far from this, and was one of the Knights of St. John,'' said the old man; ''but I was one of those in the Order who always daughter of a little king who lived a great way off; and when he saw her people in red caps who come out of the lake driving little white cows ''Why,'' said the old man, ''do you fear the ancient gods who made the ''Tumaus Costello,'' said the old man, ''you have done a good deed to ''If you come with evil thoughts and armed men,'' said the son of Dermott 6865 propaganda, ''Tell those young men in Ireland that this great thing written.'' ''But,'' said the dull man, ''would you not have given us three times a week,'' said Wilde, ''for an hour a day but I have in the house, for Morris was an old man content at last to gather like imagining in every great change, believing that the first Ruskin had said to some friend of my father''s--''As I go to my work great deal--too much, I imagine, for so young a man, or may be for father was a great mathematician--or ''A woman once said to me, talking some time when Mrs. Ellis came into the room and said: thought ''like a man of letters,'' now exasperated at their A great passionate nature, a sort of female Dr. Johnson, impressive, I think, to every man or woman who had like a dumb-bell.'' I said, for I knew that her imagination 7448 WISE MAN [turning over the pages of a book]. [The FOOL comes in and stands at the door, told me that I am wise, and I have never seen an angel. Is it long since you have seen them, Teigue the Fool? "Glory be to God," but before I came the wise men said it. book must be different, for only fools and women have thoughts like I am the Angel of the Most High God. WISE MAN. ANGEL [at the door and pointing at the hour-glass]. some one came to the door, and when I looked up I saw an angel Oh, look out of the door and tell me if there is anybody market like Teigue the Fool! [FOOL goes on blowing.] Out through the door FOOL [looking wise]. "Teigue, tell me how many pennies are in your bag. must come near you; somebody in there might hear what the Angel 8557 At times during Synge''s last illness, Lady Gregory and I would speak of abstract thoughts are raised up between men''s minds and Nature, who never does the same thing twice, or makes one man like another, till presence of a mind like some noisy and powerful machine, of thought need, find words that delight the ear, make pictures to the mind''s eye, Synge seemed by nature unfitted to think a political thought, and with change a man''s thought about the world or stir his moral nature, for great orator took delight in, from formidable men, from moral life that would destroy the arts; and here, to take a thought from Yet, in Synge''s plays also, fantasy gives the form and not the thought, Synge, like all of the great kin, sought for the Synge must have read a great deal at one time, but he was not a man you