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CHAPTER I
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During the year 1890 I had been formulating1 my first dim notion as to what it was I wanted to do in life. For two years and more I had been reading Eugene Field’s “Sharps and Flats,” a column he wrote daily for the Chicago Daily News, and through this, the various phases of life which he suggested in a humorous though at times romantic way, I was beginning to suspect, vaguely2 at first, that I wanted to write, possibly something like that. Nothing else that I had so far read—novels, plays, poems, histories—gave me quite the same feeling for constructive3 thought as did the matter of his daily notes, poems, and aphorisms4, which were of Chicago principally, whereas nearly all others dealt with foreign scenes and people.
But this comment on local life here and now, these trenchant5 bits on local street scenes, institutions, characters, functions, all moved me as nothing hitherto had. To me Chicago at this time seethed6 with a peculiarly human or realistic atmosphere. It is given to some cities, as to some lands, to suggest romance, and to me Chicago did that hourly. It sang, I thought, and in spite of what I deemed my various troubles—small enough as I now see them—I was singing with it. These seemingly drear neighborhoods through which I walked each day, doing collecting for an easy-payment furniture company, these ponderous7 regions of large homes where new-wealthy packers and manufacturers dwelt, these curiously8 foreign neighborhoods of almost all nationalities; and, lastly, that great downtown area, surrounded on two sides by the river, on the east by the lake, and on the south by railroad yards and stations, the whole set with these new tall buildings, the wonder of the western world, fascinated me. Chicago was so young, so
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constructive
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格言,警句( aphorism的名词复数 ) | |
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metropolis
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masonry
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seething
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improvise
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joyfully
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prospects
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mere
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annex
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pittances
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paradoxes
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insouciance
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muster
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v.集合,收集,鼓起,激起;n.集合,检阅,集合人员,点名册 | |
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socialists
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社会主义者( socialist的名词复数 ) | |
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worthy
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chamber
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assortment
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alleged
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offender
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offenders
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advertising
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