...day about noon, when going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised by the print of a man's bare foot on the shore, which was very plain to be seen in the sand. I stood like one thunderstruck ; I listened, I looked around me ; but I could hear nothing nor see anything. I went up to a rising...

...approach to the mound itself. It is like Defoe's description of Crusoe's discovery of the foot-print : ' I stood like one thunderstruck, or as if I had seen an apparition. I listened, I looked round me, but I could hear nothing, nor see anything; I went up to a rising ground, to look farther.' 897 foxov...

...the candle; and before I could budge it was all shrivelled up. SPIDER. UG! BEE. And Robinson Crusoe: "But now I come to a new scene of my life. It happened...with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore ..." The Moonlight Sonata" ... (HE hums a bit of it.) And Beethoven's Fifth. (HE does the signature.)...

...Defoe wrote one of the best-known passages in English prose. Note the clear, direct and simple style: One day about noon going towards my boat, I was exceedingly...thunderstruck, or as if I had seen an apparition. Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) wrote The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America,...

...cf. supra p. 178. "Il happened one day about noon going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprized with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore, which was very plain to be seen in the sand"32, mais dans la roche. Comme l'empreinte est exactement celle de son pied, Robinson en éprouve...

...Foot IT HAPPENED one day about noon, going towards my boat on the other side of the island. I was very surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on...stood like one thunderstruck, or as if I had seen a ghost. I listened, I looked round me, I could hear nothing, nor see anything. I went up to a rising...

...Communication and intention It happen'd one Day about Noon going towards my Boat, I was exceedingly surpriz'd with the Print of a Man's naked Foot on the Shore,...the Sand: I stood like one Thunderstruck, or as if 1 had seen an Apparition; I listen'd, I look'd round me, I could hear nothing, nor see any Thing; I...

...fateful moment in which the shipwrecked sailor, after years of solitude, encountered a mark on the sand: "It happened one day about noon going towards my boat,...thunder-struck, or as if I had seen an apparition. "3 In the case of the brain, the portentous mark of sociality was discovered by a visual neurophysiologist,...

...Scene of my Life. It happen'd one Day about Noon going towards my Boat, I was exceedingly surpriz'd with the Print of a Man's naked Foot on the Shore,...Thunder-struck, or as if I had seen an Apparition; I listen'd, I look'd round me, I could hear nothing, nor see any Thing, I went up to a rising Ground...

...problem of society in all its ambiguity. One day, as Crusoe remembers it, he "was exceedingly surprized with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore,...thunder-struck, or as if I had seen an apparition" (162). Bewildered and terrified, Crusoe flees: "looking behind me at every two or three steps, mistaking...