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" slow study,' and sit for a long while silent on my eggs. Unconscious thought, there is the only method : macerate your subject, let it boil slow, then take the lid off and look in — and there your stuff is — good or bad. "
The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson: Letters to his family and ... - Page 282
by Robert Louis Stevenson - 1899
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The Living Age, Volume 263

1909 - 844 pages
...Stevenson contrasts with the journalist's feverishness the unhastenlug processes of the literary artist. "Unconscious thought there is the only method: macerate your subject, let it boll slow, then take the lid off and look in — and there your stuff is, good or bad." Mr. JM Barrie...
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Cosmopolis: An International Monthly Review ..., Volume 2

1896 - 932 pages
...letter of his own to Mr. W. Craibe Angus of Glasgow : — " 1 am still ' a slow study/ and sit for a long while silent on my eggs. Unconscious thought,...look in— and there your stuff is — good or bad." The several elements above noted having been left to work for many years in his mind, it was in the...
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Weir of Hermiston

Robert Louis Stevenson - 1896 - 288 pages
...letter of his own to Mr. W. Craibe Angus of Glasgow : — " I am still ' a slow study,' and sit for a long while silent on my eggs. Unconscious thought,...look in — and there your stuff is — good or bad." The several elements above noted having been left to work for many years in his mind, it was in the...
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Weir of Hermiston: The Plays ; Fables

Robert Louis Stevenson - Country life - 1896 - 550 pages
...letter of his own to Mr. W. Craibe Angus of Glasgow: — " I am still a ' slow study,' and sit for a long while silent on my eggs. Unconscious thought,...look in — and there your stuff is — good or bad." The several elements above noted having been left to work for many years in his mind, it was in the...
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The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson: Weir of Hermiston. The plays ...

Robert Louis Stevenson - 1896 - 542 pages
...letter of his own to Mr. W. Craibe Angus of Glasgow: — " I am still a ' slow study,' and sit for a long while silent on my eggs. Unconscious thought,...look in — and there your stuff is — good or bad." The several elements above noted having been left to work for many years in his mind, it was in the...
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Weir of Hermiston: An Unfinished Romance

Robert Louis Stevenson - Country life - 1896 - 302 pages
...letter of his own to Mr. W. Craibe Angus of Glasgow : — "I am still ' a slow study, j and sit for a long while silent on my eggs. Unconscious thought,...look in — and there your stuff is — good or bad." The several elements above noted having been left to work for many years in his mind, it was in the...
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The master of Ballantrae; Weir of Hermiston; Poems

Robert Louis Stevenson - 1896 - 694 pages
...a letter of his own to Mr. W. Craibe Angus of Glasgow : — "I am still 'a slow study,' and sit for a long while silent on my eggs. Unconscious thought,...look in— and there your stuff is — good or bad." The several elements above noted having been left to work for many years in his mind, it was in the...
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Weir of Hermiston: The Misadventures of John Nicholson. The Story of a Lie ...

Robert Louis Stevenson - 1896 - 442 pages
...letter of his own to Mr. W. Craibe Angus of Glasgow : — "I am still a ' slow study,' and sit for a long while silent on my eggs. Unconscious thought,...look in — and there your stuff is — good or bad." The several elements above noted having been left to work for many years in his mind, it was in the...
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Works: The master of Ballantrae

Robert Louis Stevenson - English literature - 1896 - 690 pages
...letter of his own to Mr. W. Craibe Angus of Glasgow : — "I am :still 'a slow study,' and sit for a long while silent on my eggs. Unconscious thought,...subject, let it boil slow, then take the lid off and look in—and there your stuff is — good or bad." The several elements above noted having been left to...
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The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson to His Family and Friends, Volume 2

Robert Louis Stevenson - 1901 - 480 pages
...and I am once more a free man. What will he do with it ? TO W. CRAIBE ANGUS Vailima, Samoa, November 1891. MY DEAR MR. ANGUS, — Herewith the invaluable...journalist's method is the way to manufacture lies ; it is v-'M-worship — if you know the luminous quaker phrase; ixi.tf the will is only to be brought in the...
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