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MONEY FOR NOTHING

J . B. Priestley

In the early nineteen-twenties, when I first than there is now.) I was ready to

in London, I did anything, and often did for about a half –

the reviewing. (There was much more space then for book reviews columns of short notes on new books. The books themselves were then sold – fiction for a third of the publisher‘s price,to a certain shop not far from the Strand, a shop that

purchase and resale of review copies, a traffic that had a faintly piratical air. At this shop, where human nature was understood, one was always paid

and paid , generally in exquisite new . And of all the money I have ever handled, this gave me most delight. Money for Jam, Money for Old Rope. Money for Nothing. When we receive our wages, not earned, , we may be content, for this is what we , the magical bonus, that starts us capering. Many their fellow creatures, are , but we are a long way from delight. It is money that we have , who understand everything bewildered and saddened by the ubiquitous passion among the mob for betting and gambling. But the more we standardize wages, hours and prices, the more we

social security for everybody, the more we compel two and two to make four everywhere, the more people will take to the greyhound tracks and the football pools. For it is when two and two

miraculously I used to sell my

five that the heart leaps up at last. It is when I have earned in one way or another very , tax certificates, cheques and . But when I or the money looks like manna that we truly delight in it. Since those days when considerable sums of money indeed; but they have all been lost in a dreary maze of band accounts,

bills and receipts. I have never felt rich and careless. Like a man returning from a lucky day at the races or sailor home form used to , for quarter of an hour or so I felt like a tipsy man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo.

Ⅸ.Translation

An Important Aspect of College Life

It is perfectly possible to organize the life of our colleges in such a way that students and teachers alike will take part in it; in such a way that a perfectly natural daily intercourse will be established between them; and it is only by such an organization that they can be given real vitality as places of serious training, be made communities in which youngsters will come fully to realize how interesting intellectual work is, how vital, how important, how closely associated with all modern achievement-only by such an organization that study can be made to seem part of life itself. Lectures often seem very formal and empty things; recitations generally prove very dull and unrewarding. It is in conversation and natural intercourse with scholars chiefly that you find how lively knowledge is, how it ties into everything that is interesting and important, how intimate a part it is of everything that is interesting and important, how intimate a part it is of everything that is ―practical‖ and connected with the world, Men are not always made thoughtful by books; but they are generally made thoughtful by association with men who think.

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