need a quicker way to return to the library. Now I have to tap on the book, then type on continue reading and also advance to the next chapter. One tap took me directly to the last chapter I read. For which people laughed at him and abused him, and rude coachmen even struck the giant with their whips–but was that fair? What will habit not do to a man? Habit brought Stepan Trofimovich to much the same thing, but in a still more innocent and inoffensive form, if one may put it so, for he was a most excellent man.I do really like the new audio controls and the more modern look. In a satirical English novel of the last century, a certain Gulliver, having returned from the land of the Lilliputians, where people were only some three inches tall, had grown so accustomed to considering himself a giant among them that even when walking in the streets of London, he could not help shouting at passersby and carriages to move aside and take care that he not somehow crush them, imagining that he was still a giant and they were little. He was, for example, greatly enamored of his position as a "persecuted" man and, so to speak, an "exile." There is a sort of classical luster to these two little words that seduced him once and for all, and, later raising him gradually in his own estimation over the course of so many years, brought him finally to some sort of pedestal, rather lofty and gratifying to his vanity. It could all have been a matter of habit, or, better, of a ceaseless and noble disposition, from childhood on, towards a pleasant dream of his beautiful civic stance. Not that I equate him with a stage actor: God forbid, particularly as I happen to respect him. I will say straight off: Stepan Trofimovich constantly played a certain special and, so to speak, civic role among us, and loved this role to the point of passion–so much so that it even seems to me he would have been unable to live without it. 7: The Last Peregrination of Stepan Trofimovich
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