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It, with the preceding scene and with others unnarrated but existent by implication, to which add essays on various subjects or moral apothegms ( e.g. My Favourite Hero or Procrastination is the Thief of Time ) composed during schoolyears, seemed to him to contain in itself and in conjunction with the personal equation certain possibilities of financial, social, personal and sexual success, whether specially collected and selected as model pedagogic themes (of cent per cent merit) for the use of preparatory and junior grade students or contributed in printed form, following the precedent of Philip Beaufoy or Doctor Dick or Heblon’s Studies in Blue , to a publication of certified circulation and solvency or employed verbally as intellectual stimulation for sympathetic auditors, tacitly appreciative of successful narrative and confidently augurative of successful achievement, during the increasingly longer nights gradually following the summer solstice on the day but three following, videlicet, Tuesday, 21 June ( S. Aloysius Gonzaga), sunrise, 3.33 a.m. , sunset 8.29 p.m.