Questions

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49436	And for the rest, is not Mr Sludge own brother to Verloc and old De Barrel?
49436	Bishop Blougram first cousin to the great Personage in_ The Secret Agent_, Captain Anthony brother to Caponsacchi, Mrs Gould sister to Pompilia?
49436	But is it?
49436	Does this Romantic- Realism that he has provided for us show any signs of influencing that future?
49436	How deep will it go?
49436	How much will it yield?
49436	I''m interesting, of course, but do n''t you remember...?"
49436	III Finally, what will be the effect of the work of Joseph Conrad upon the English novel of the future?
49436	If, as has often been said, Browning was as truly novelist as poet, may we not now say with equal justice that Conrad is as truly poet as novelist?
49436	In how many novels would Donkin''s life have been limited by the part that he was required to play in the adventures of the_ Narcissus_?
49436	Is not Waring Conrad''s man?
49436	Is not this exactly what we may say of_ Nostromo_?
49436	Is not this little farewell enough to make us his friends for life?
49436	What had Jim done that he should be in such a case?
49436	Will he allow his imagination to carry him wildly into fantasy and incredibility?
20150	Could I begin with the sacramental words,''I was born on such a date in such a place''? 20150 A one- man show-- or is it merely the show of one man? 20150 And in view of her triumphant end what more could I have done for her rehabilitation and her happiness? 20150 And suppose I lied? 20150 And who''s to prove the lighter was n''t sunk? 20150 But how did he bring them into the river? 20150 But what is the subject of Falk? 20150 Could it have been at all? 20150 Did I? 20150 Did he mean to frighten me? 20150 Eh?
20150	Even now when I look back on it with a certain regret( who would not regret his youth?)
20150	For what are we to let ourselves be disturbed by an angel''s vengeful music too mighty for our ears and too awful for our terrors?
20150	Had I really sinned as he said or was it only that man''s madness?
20150	Had I the right?
20150	Had I the right?
20150	I mean who was wise enough and convincing enough to show them the inanity of their mental attitude?
20150	I said:"A professional sharper?"
20150	I should like to ask him what he imagines the, so to speak, lifelong embrace of Felicia Moorsom and Geoffrey Renouard could have been like?
20150	I wonder whether she was European at all?
20150	Once in the course of some quarrel the sailor threatened him:"What''s to prevent me reporting ashore what you have told me about that silver?"
20150	Or arouse my admiration?
20150	Or astonish me?
20150	Or perhaps the latter part?
20150	Or seduce me?
20150	Presently he retired, pointedly unnoticed-- into the forest maybe?
20150	That''s why I long sometimes for another glimpse of the"beautiful Antonia"( or can it be the Other?)
20150	Then he added:"You have the style, you have the temperament; why not write another?"
20150	They were unjustifiable, but who was to tell them that?
20150	What can you expect?
20150	Who then is going to say Nay to his temptations if not his conscience?
20150	Who will dare say after this that the change of air had not been an immense success?
20150	Why should he not be?
20150	Would it have been credible?
19355	( But what of the immoral French?
19355	A Southern Puritan?
19355	A hypothetical outrage?
19355	A silly begging of the question, for does n''t posterity also make mistakes?
19355	A tale of the spirit''s triumph, of youth besting destiny?
19355	And does an extravagance or an error here and there lie validly against the saying of it?
19355	And if they did n''t?
19355	And what else is there in Balzac, Goethe, Swift, Molière, Turgenev, Ibsen, Dostoyevsky, Romain Rolland, Anatole France?
19355	And what have we in"The Financier"and"The Titan"?
19355	And why did it lie so long in manuscript, and finally go out stealthily, under a private imprint?
19355	Arthur Schnitzler?
19355	But does all this argue a total lack of justice in the American character, or even a lack of common decency?
19355	But is the Conrad I here describe simply a new variety of moralist, differing from the general only in the drift of the doctrine he preaches?
19355	But through whom?
19355	But what joy can there be in rolling up sentences that have no more life and beauty in them, intrinsically, than so many election bulletins?
19355	But what of Tschaikowsky, with his childish Slavic whining?
19355	But who else?
19355	But"The''Genius''"?
19355	Carl Van Vechten?
19355	Clara Viebig?
19355	Even the Czech- Irish hypothesis( or is it Magyar- Irish?)
19355	For some undetermined reason-- the influence of the American tourist?
19355	Gustav Frenssen?
19355	Here, I suspect, he meant to say Czech instead of Magyar, for is n''t Pilsen in Bohemia?
19355	How many remain?
19355	If it be His will, what right have I or any one to say aught?
19355	In Sudermann, Germany has a writer of short stories of very high calibre, but where is the German novelist to match Conrad?
19355	In the preface to"What is Man?"
19355	Irish?
19355	Is Conrad the beyond- Kipling, as the early criticism of him sought to make him?
19355	Is Titian''s chromo of Moses in the bullrushes seriously to be regarded as the noblest picture in Europe?
19355	Is either passion animal?
19355	Is it really the mark of a smart fellow to lift a peasant''s cackle over"Lohengrin"?
19355	Is such coarse and ignorant clowning to be accepted as humour, as great humour, as the best humour that the most humorous of peoples has produced?
19355	It is pretty, but what is it all about?...
19355	Just what do they mean?
19355	Just what is Dreiser driving at?
19355	Lawrence Gilman?
19355	Need anything else be said in praise of a critic?
19355	Or in the Hauptmann of"Fuhrmann Henschel,"or in Hardy, or in Sudermann?
19355	Or in the Zola of"L''Assomoir,""Germinal,""La Débâcle,"the whole Rougon- Macquart series?
19355	Or in the laborious confection of such stuff as this, from Book I, Chapter IV, of"The''Genius''"?
19355	Philip H. Goepp?
19355	Philip Hale?
19355	Save one thinks of H. B. Fuller( whose"With the Procession"and"The Cliff- Dwellers"are still remembered by Huneker, but by whom else?
19355	So translated by Floyd Dell:"O ye deathward- going tribes of man, what do your lives mean except that they go to nothingness?"
19355	Suppose we saw them striving blindly, too, and pitied them?...
19355	Thomas Mann?
19355	Tolstoi, after"Anna Karenina,"wrote"What Is Art?"
19355	Turn to"The Mysterious Stranger,"or"What is Man?"...
19355	Well, why not?
19355	What could be more erroneous than the common assumption that Puritanism is exclusively a Northern, a New England, madness?
19355	What good would it do us, asks Dreiser, to know?
19355	What is Captain MacWhirr, hero or simply ass?
19355	What is Falk, beast or idealist?
19355	What is Lord Jim, scoundrel and poltroon or gallant knight?
19355	What is the fact?
19355	What modern civilization save this of ours could have produced Christian Science, or the New Thought, or Billy Sundayism?
19355	What of Liszt, with his cheap playacting, his incurable lasciviousness, his plebeian warts?
19355	What of Richard Strauss, with his warmed- over Nietzscheism, his flair for the merely horrible?
19355	What of Wagner, with his delight in imbecile fables, his popinjay vanity, his soul of a_ Schnorrer_?
19355	What other could accept gravely the astounding imbecilities of English philanthropy and American law?
19355	What other could have yielded up the mawkish bumptiousness of the Uplift?
19355	What, then, is Sherman''s complaint?
19355	Who but a German goes into woollen undershirts at 45, and makes his will, and begins to call his wife"Mamma"?
19355	Who but a German sheds tears over the empty bottles of day before yesterday, the Adelaide Neilson of 1877?
19355	Who ever heard of an Irish epicure, an Irish_ flâneur_, or, for that matter, an Irish contrapuntist?
19355	Why does he do it?
19355	Why, then?
19355	Why?
19355	[ 13] Who cares?
1143	On what grounds should you endeavour to hit end on?
1143	What do you think England will do? 1143 What has happened?"
1143	What, even alone?
1143	Where does he live?
1143	Why should n''t we cram in as much cargo as our ships will hold? 1143 You would not have thought she would have cracked an egg-- eh?"
1143	( Ten years of it-- eh?)
1143	A Board of Trade-- what is it?
1143	A one- man show-- or is it merely the show of one man?
1143	A strange absence of mind or unconscious conviction that one can not approach an important moment of one''s life by means of a hired carriage?
1143	A superficial person might be rendered miserable by the simple question: What would become of us if the circulating libraries ceased to exist?
1143	And perhaps Captain Littlehales is right?
1143	And then, what is it, this Spirit of the Sea?
1143	And what did we do in our pride and our cowardice?
1143	And what more?
1143	And what on earth is an"engaging ruffian"?
1143	And who can say that they could have done better than this?
1143	And who would n''t look?
1143	And why?
1143	Any more women?"
1143	Are you all willing?"
1143	At any time within the navigating centuries mankind might have addressed it with the words:"What are you, after all?
1143	Bribery?
1143	But what about the priceless Sevres porcelain and the Venetian glass provided for the service of Transatlantic passengers?
1143	But what else under the circumstances could you expect?
1143	But what hands, what voices will she find on coming out into the light of day?
1143	But what is there to prevent those doors to be fitted so as to move upwards, or horizontally, or slantwise?
1143	But what were to me now the futilities of an individual past?
1143	But would it have been?
1143	Can there be in the world of real men anything more shadowy than an Archduke?
1143	Can you imagine anything more squalid than an Immortality at the beck and call of Eusapia Palladino?
1143	Coming?"
1143	Did n''t I tell you he was a fit subject for the cage?
1143	Do you understand the force of that expression:''To the end of time''?
1143	Enter to the grizzled examiner a young man of modest aspect:"Are you well up in modern seamanship?"
1143	For, indeed, what could they have had to say?
1143	Frankly, is it not time to knock the improper object off its shelf?
1143	Had it not hypnotised half Europe?
1143	How can we handle so many boats with our davits?
1143	I agreed that it was, and he continued:"What are we to do?
1143	I daresay there was the usual official inquiry, but who cared for it?
1143	I mean who was wise enough and convincing enough to show them the inanity of their mental attitude?
1143	Is it indignation at the loss of so many lives which is at work here?
1143	Is it not time to knock it off its dark shelf with some implement appropriate to its worth and status?
1143	Is it only an ardent and, upon the whole, praiseworthy desire for information?
1143	Is that it?"
1143	It is a relief( we are all humane, are we not?)
1143	Looks simple, does n''t it?
1143	Now would you believe that the objection put forward was absolutely futile?
1143	One even asks oneself whether there was such a demand?
1143	People used to come to me with very serious news and ask,"What do you think of it?"
1143	Progress of enlightenment, or decay of faith?
1143	See?
1143	Suddenly my friend''s wife came to us with a telegram in her hand and said calmly:"General mobilisation, do you know?"
1143	Then why risk it?"
1143	They were unjustifiable, but who was to tell them that?
1143	Was it, then, in that guise that they appeared through the mists of the sea, distant, perplexed, and simple- minded?
1143	Was that the case?
1143	Was there one?
1143	Were there two?
1143	What are they after?
1143	What can you expect?
1143	What could be more surprising for instance, than the calm invitation to Great Britain to discard the force and protection of its Navy?
1143	What for?"
1143	What is there for them to find out?
1143	What is to come after?
1143	What spirit was it that inspired the unfailing manifestations of their simple fidelity?
1143	What tribute, for instance, has poetry paid to electricity?
1143	What was it but just a rush through Germany, to get across as quickly as possible?
1143	What would you do?"
1143	What would you think of the intelligence or candour of these advertising people?
1143	What would you think of them?
1143	When the masterful old aunt inquires,"What is the man''s name, my dear?"
1143	Whether such a principle exists-- who can say?
1143	Who can tell how a tradition comes into the world?
1143	Who was it that said that Time works wonders?
1143	Why should there be no boats?
1143	Why?
1143	Why?
1143	Why?"
1143	of cases, is it not well worth trying?