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On Nothing & Kindred Subjects

by Hilaire BELLOC (1870 - 1953)

Section 28 On a Southern Harbour

“I knew a man once, Maurice, who was at Oxford for three years, and after that went down with no degree. At College, while his friends were seeking for Truth in funny brown German Philosophies, Sham Religions, stinking bottles and identical equations, he was lying on his back in Eynsham meadows thinking of Nothing, and got the Truth by this parallel road of his much more quickly than did they by theirs; for the asses are still seeking, mildly disputing, and, in a cultivated manner, following the gleam, so that they have become in their Donnish middleage a nuisance and a pest; while he--that other--with the Truth very fast and firm at the end of a leather thong is dragging her sliding, whining and crouching on her four feet, dragging her reluctant through the world, even into the broad daylight where Truth most hates to be.” - Hilaire Belloc

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Listen next episodes of On Nothing & Kindred Subjects:
Section 29 On a Young Man and an Older Man , Section 30 On the Departure of a Guest , Section 31 On Death , Section 32 On Coming go an End