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he would fight his way on and up higher

“And so you arise from the mud, Martin Eden,” he said solemnly. “A bit of hysteria and melodrama, eh? Well, never mind.[77] You can’t stop here. Go on. It’s to a finish,[78] you know.”

“Well, then, you say, ‘You was’; it is not correct. You must say, ‘You were.’ You often say ‘I seen’ instead of ‘I saw.’ You use the double negative – ”

He had been curious to know things. All things were related to all other things from the star in space to the myriads of atoms in the grain of sand[72] under one’s foot

inability to be humanly happy robbed the value of this great income.

But it seemed to him that thirty thousand a year was all right, but dyspepsia and

every page of every book was a hole into the realm of knowledge

Invitations to dinner poured in on Martin; and the more they poured, the more he puzzled. My God! and I was hungry and in rags, he thought to himself. Why didn’t you give me a dinner then? Then was the time. It was work performed. If you are feeding me now for work performed, why did you not feed me then when I needed it? Not one word in “The Ring of Bells,” nor in “The Peri and the Pearl” has been changed.

He remembered the days of his desperate starvation when no one invited him to dinner. That was the time he needed dinners, and went weak and lost weight from famine. That was the paradox of it. When he wanted dinners, no one gave them to him, and now that he could buy a hundred thousand dinners and was losing his appetite, dinners were thrust upon him right and left. But why? There was no justice in it. He was no different

But he was proud. He desired to be valued for himself, or for his work, which, after all, was an expression of himself.