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diff --git a/tests/longtext.txt b/tests/longtext.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..72e3a18 --- /dev/null +++ b/tests/longtext.txt @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ + What is involved in such [close] relationships is a form of emotional +chemistry, so far unexplained by any school of psychiatry I am aware of, that +conditions nothing so simple as a choice between the poles of attraction and +repulsion. You can meet some people thirty, forty times down the years, and +they remain amiable bystanders, like the shore lights of towns that a sailor +passes at stated times but never calls at on the regular run. Conversely, +all considerations of sex aside, you can meet some other people once or twice +and they remain permanent influences on your life. + Everyone is aware of this discrepancy between the acquaintance seen +as familiar wallpaper or instant friend. The chemical action it entails is +less worth analyzing than enjoying. At any rate, these six pieces are about +men with whom I felt an immediate sympat - to use a coining of Max Beerbohm's +more satisfactory to me than the opaque vogue word "empathy". + -- Alistair Cooke, "Six Men" |