This document contains short excerpts from four different literary works. The excerpts discuss hunters pursuing fame on a river in Africa from Heart of Darkness, evidence of past drinkers from "For the Horses Who Fell through the Ice", how dust develops from disuse and abandonment from "Polish and Balm", and a lawyer commenting on the absurdity of a trial from The Stranger.

1. "Hunters for gold or pursuers of fame, they all had gone out on that stream, bearing the sword, and often the torch,
messengers of the might within the land, bearers of a spark from the sacred fire."
- Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

2. “Two green bottles in a heap of brown bottles: someone drank here before me”
-Miranda Field, “For the Horses Who Fell through the Ice”

3. “Dust develops from inside as well as on top when objects stop being used. No unguent can soothe the chap of
abandonment”
-Kay Ryan, “Polish and Balm”

4. “The spectators laughed. And my lawyer, rolling up one of his sleeves, said with finality, „Here we have a perfect
reflection of this entire trial: everything is true and nothing is true!”
-Albert Camus, The Stranger