although they are often ready to play the buffoon to amuse you, such conduct is the prerogative of the truly wise. - T. H. White
" "although they are often ready to play the buffoon to amuse you, such conduct is the prerogative of the truly wise.
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About T. H. White
Terence Hanbury White (29 May 1906 – 17 January 1964) was an English author best known for his Arthurian novels.
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Pen Names:
James Aston
Native Name:
Terence Hanbury White
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T.H. White
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The boy slept well in the woodland nest where he had laid himself down, in that kind of thin but refreshing sleep which people have when they begin to lie out of doors. At first he only dipped below the surface of sleep, and skimmed along like a salmon in shallow water, so close to the surface that he fancied himself in air. He thought himself awake when he was already asleep. He saw the stars
above his face, whirling on their silent and sleepless axis, and the leaves of the trees rustling against them, and he heard small changes in the grass. These little noises of footsteps and soft-fringed wing-beats and stealthy bellies drawn over the grass blades or rattling against the bracken at first frightened or interested him, so that he moved to see what they were (but never saw), then soothed him, so that he no longer cared to see what they were but trusted them to be themselves, and finally left him altogether as he swam down deeper and deeper, nuzzling into the scented turf, into the warm ground, into the unending waters under the earth.
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