A Message From Mesopotamia (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Arthur Lawley

9780332828923: A Message From Mesopotamia (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0332828921 ISBN 13: 9780332828923

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from A Message From Mesopotamia

My experience of America is that of the making of speeches there is no end. They are generally bad ones.

Recently I was called on quite suddenly and unexpectedly to address an educated audience on "Antarctic Exploration," a subject of which I am profoundly ignorant. The result was not happy, and I was fully conscious of the sorry incoherence of my remarks.

"Your speech, Sir!" said a candid listener, was like a jig-saw puzzle!"

I acquit him of any intention to flatter me. The simile was apt!

And now I ask myself, "Is this little written effort only another jig-saw puzzle?" Well! it is just a stitching together of leaves torn from a diary of fitful jottings. It is a bundle of odds and ends, of scraps and sketches!

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