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Excerpt: ...while you re there, so that you may also become acquainted with that Californian institution." Accordingly, when, lying awake at about half past five on the morning of April 18 in my little "flat" on the campus of Stanford, I felt the bed begin to waggle, my first consciousness was one of gleeful recognition of the nature of the movement. "By Jove," I said to myself, "heres Bssold Transcribers note: Bs old? earthquake, after all " And then, as it went crescendo. "And a jolly good one it is, too " I said. Sitting up involuntarily, and taking a kneeling position, I was thrown down on my face as it went fortior shaking the room exactly as a terrier shakes a rat. Then everything that was on anything else slid off to the floor, over went bureau and chiffonier with a crash, as the fortissimo was reached; plaster cracked, an awful roaring noise seemed to fill the outer air, and in an instant all was still again, save the soft babble of human voices from far and near that soon began to make itself heard, as the inhabitants in costumes negliges in various degrees sought the greater safety of the street and yielded to the passionate desire for sympathetic communication. The thing was over, as I understand the Lick Observatory to have declared, in forty-eight seconds. To me it felt as if about that length of time, although I have heard others say that it seemed to them longer. In my case, sensation and emotion were so strong that little thought, and no reflection or volition, were possible in the short time consumed by the phenomenon. The emotion consisted wholly of glee and admiration; glee at the vividness which such an abstract idea or verbal term as "earthquake" could put on when translated into sensible reality and verified concretely; and admiration at the way in which the frail little wooden house could hold itself together in spite of such a shaking. I felt no trace whatever of fear; it was pure delight and welcome. "Go it," I almost cried...
| ISBN-13 | 9781153756600 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1153756609 |
| Weight | 0.40 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.28 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 116 pages |
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| Published On | 2010-03-01 |
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