Questions

This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.

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33674But I can not quite do that, for would not that be a confession that I had n''t the pluck to stick it out?
33674Have I not been called that?
33674Plant, I beg you, mignonette to encircle my arrowroot fields.__ What has all this to do with the Sonnets from the Patagonian?
33674What can touch me now except the amusing joy of giving up for the common good?
33674What more distinguished end for an incurable poseur?
33674Yet who actually loves humankind less than I?
38572And then put out one foot a little bit, And says:"Ai n''t that provokin''?
38572Must I choke And die alone here in the heat and smoke?
11266A famous British General( still living) was once asked,"What is the most essential quality for a great leader of men?"
11266Ah, then, why mourn that''neath another sky, Far from these longing arms and eyes thou art?
11266Ah, why then earthward move, Where pure and perfect bliss hath never been?
11266Are we not such, Belovèd, thou and I?
11266VII THE SUBLIME HOPE What need to tell thee o''er and o''er again What eyes to eyes have spoken silently And heart to heart hath uttered?
11266Why ask for more?
11266was it true, or was it but a dream Of bliss that scarce to mortal hearts is given?
11266what need of words have we, Who speak in feeling to each other''s heart?
4756Ai n''t my dough good as Murphy''s?
4756Am I a turnip?
4756For she, too, was of the caste of the articulate; did she not"Cough up loops of kindergarten chin?"
4756On the strict Q. T., When do my Trilbys get so ossified?
4756Say, Would n''t that jam you?
4756Say, are there any more at home like you?
4756Why am I minus when it''s up to me To brace my Paris Pansy for a glide?
4756XX Forget it?
37365Who first invented work?
37365But where are all your roses now-- Those wonderful delights That made such garlands for the brow Of your fair Sybarites?
37365Can bright be dim?
37365Can such ill grace to high estate belong?
37365Have we learned it as we ought?
37365Have we moved upward, nearer to the goal?
37365How can he?
37365In mad soul- suicide The world''s vain spoils rapaciously to seize, To pamper the base appetite of pride, And live a lord in luxury and ease?
37365Is he the same that all the summer long Strew''d with ungrudging hand his gleaming gold?
37365Is our renown''d Dominion then so small As not to hold this new inhabitant?
37365Is this success, whereof so many prate?-- To have the Midas- touch that turns to gold Earth''s common blessings?
37365Or are her means so pitiably scant As not to yield a livelihood to all?
37365Or are we lesser men, foredoom''d to thrall?
37365Or he who sedulously tells and groups Their minted shadows with deft finger- tips?
37365Or so much better than the immigrant That we should make our hearts as adamant And guard against defilement with a wall?
37365Or who above the shadow''s shadow stoops, And dips his pen and writes, and writes and dips?
37365What holds had Knowledge ta''en?
37365What is success?
37365What the gain To Wisdom''s store?
37365Who would drop precious jewels in the sea Or cast rare heirlooms on the trodden way?
37365Who would his birthright sell for pottage- mess But a dull, sensual Esau, blind to good?
37365Who, but a prodigal in wantonness, Would waste his patrimony for swine''s food?
37365Who, careless, would behold a goodly tree Or noble palace stricken to decay?
37365can warm so soon be cold?
37365to accumulate, And in accumulation to grow old?
5332But Gill remarked,"Eh, what?
5332EPILOGUE Kind reader, when you''phone do n''t ask for me Enquiring how a Flossie should be won-- There is n''t any Rule Book, are you on?
5332Eh, what?
5332I Am I in bad?
5332I asked her, Did she need a Valentine?
5332I piped my Pansy in among the bunch And asked her would she mix it with the Champ, Would n''t she like to join me in a stamp?
5332I says,"How''s Ma?"
5332I went and gave the boss a cooney con About the Car- Barn Kick-- what did he say?
5332If Man, then, is the highest of created mammals, is not his natural speech( Slang) the highest of created languages?
5332Love in a cottage run on union pay-- Can Teddy Roosevelt do a sum like that?
5332Perhaps she''s beat it with some soapy gent--"Where are lines like these to be found in the Italian of Petrarch?
5332Say how, with such an iceberg on the track, Can I conduct my car to married bliss?
5332She asks me,"Dance?"
5332She ossified the gripman when she stared-- And me?
5332THE LOVE SONNETS OF A CAR CONDUCTOR PROLOGUE Did some one ask if I am on the job?
5332VI The lemon- wagon rumbled by today And dropped me off a sour one-- are you on?
5332Was I there Henry Miller?
5332Was he the discoverer of Human Sorrow or the pioneer of Human Dyspepsia?
5332What had Job eaten for breakfast that he should have given utterance to his magnificent Lamentation?
5332What position does Slang occupy in the thought of the world?
5332What, then, has become of this minstrel who sang the Minnelieder of the Car- barns?
5332Where has Tasso uttered an impassioned confession to resemble this:"But when I ogle Pansy in the throng My heart turns over twice and rings a gong"?
5332Would it be going too far, then, to say that Pansy stands to us as the symbol of Pan- girlism-- as an almost Anacreontic yearning for the type?
5332Would not the Literature, then, which employs the highest of created languages( Slang) be the supreme Literature of the world?
5332XVIII I next sprung Pansy for a four- bit feed-- It was a giddy tax, but what care I?
5332for Pansy?