putterings, 451-449
We do not apply the term study to the perusal of the ordinary novel, nor do we speak of reading a text-book.
no cursory looking, no this nor that weighted
down by fate and circumstances.
Without properly applying the modern ideas of efficiency to her own mind
(which is in itself a complete and separate organization)
the whole plan falls to
pieces
his one useful act
wool gathering, mind-wandering, mental sauntering, intellectual puttering,
always on the lookout for odd articles
out came the compass needle deflected