Project Gutenberg 2006-09-22 Public domain in the USA. 66 Strunsky, Simeon 1879 1948 The Patient Observer and His Friends Reading ease score: 68.3 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. Cowards -- The church universal -- The doctors -- Interrogation -- The mind triumphant -- On calling white black -- The solid flesh -- Some newspaper traits -- A fledgling -- The complete collector: I -- The everlasting feminine -- The fantastic toe -- On living in Brooklyn -- Palladino outdone -- The cadence of the crowd -- What we forget -- The children that lead us -- The Martians -- The complete collector: II -- When a friend marries -- The perfect union of the arts -- An eminent American -- Behind the times -- Public liars -- The complete collector: III -- The commuter -- Headlines -- Usage -- 60 h. p. -- The sample life -- The complete collector: IV -- Chopin's successsors -- The irrepressible conflict -- The germs of culture. E-text prepared by Stacy Brown and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team "The Patient Observer and His Friends" by Simeon Strunsky is a collection of essays written in the early 20th century. The work comprises a series of reflections and discussions featuring a group of friends, tackling topics such as fear, society, and human nature through humorous and insightful dialogues. The book showcases their differing perspectives on life, marked by varying degrees of cynicism, innocence, and philosophical musings. At the start of the collection, a group of men at dinner humorously debates their fears, contrasting the grand fear of death with more mundane fears associated with everyday life, such as revolving doors and social interaction. Their candid confessions provide a comical yet poignant exploration of human anxiety, revealing how the trivial often dominates one's thoughts despite life’s ultimate uncertainty. Each character's distinct fear – from public embarrassment to tangible dangers – sets the tone for the underlying themes of social exploration and personal reflection that Strunsky will develop throughout the essays. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Essays PS Text Browsing: Literature 350941 350818 2024-10-08T12:58:57.499087 2023-09-09T04:11:56.129908 text/html text/html 356406 2006-09-22T17:49:08 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 144008 2006-09-22T17:49:19 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 240498 2024-10-08T12:59:06.399055 application/epub+zip 240840 2024-10-08T12:59:01.153085 application/epub+zip 211339 2024-10-08T12:58:59.739093 application/epub+zip 443398 2024-10-08T12:59:10.596009 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 399237 2024-10-08T12:59:05.392034 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 366448 2022-09-09T09:03:19.110431 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 315338 315262 2024-10-08T12:58:56.780108 2023-09-09T04:11:55.436916 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 315059 2006-09-22T17:41:46 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 127848 2006-09-22T17:41:46 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 315081 2006-09-22T17:41:46 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 127796 2006-09-22T17:41:46 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21508 2024-10-08T12:59:10.731011 application/rdf+xml 16676 2024-10-08T12:59:00.311310 image/jpeg 3807 2024-10-08T12:59:00.024088 image/jpeg 226323 2024-10-08T12:58:57.532116 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia