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The narrative recounts personal history, including his career across major institutions and the accumulation of letters, clippings, books, photographs, and travel documents. He questions whether these “pieces justificatives” will ever be sorted, preserved, or re-read, concluding that life’s words are often discarded rather than revisited.","\u0013 INCLUDEPICTURE  \"Z:\\\\sk\\\\temp\\\\bbb\\\\English\\\\media\\\\image1.jpeg\" \\* MERGEFORMATINET \u0014\n\u0015\nChronicles of Wasted Time Part 1\nThe Green Stick\nMalcolm Muggeridge was bom in 1903 and educated at Selhurst Grammar School and Selwyn College, Cambridge. After lecturing at the Egyptian University in Cairo, he joined the editorial staff of the Man\u001fchester Guardian in 1930, and was Moscow Corre\u001fspondent for this paper from 1932-3. In the war of 1939^15 he served as an Intelligence, officer in North Africa, Mozambique, Italy and France, being seconded to MI6, the wartime version of the Secret Service. He ended up in Paris as Liaison Officer with the French Securite Militaire, and was awarded the Legion of Honour (Chevalier), the Croix de Guerre with Palm and the Medaille de la Reconnaissance Franfaise. His career as a journalist included a spell as Washington Correspondent of the Daily Telegraph from 1946-7, and Deputy Editorship from 1950-52. He was Editor of Punch from 1953-7 and Rector of Edinburgh University from 1967-8. He has written numerous books since the early ’30s, including Some\u001fthing Beautiful for God, Jesus Rediscovered, Tread Softly for you Tread on my Jokes, and The Thirties. He lives in Robertsbridge, Sussex.\u000f\nMALCOLM MUGGERIDGE\nChronicles of Wasted Time Part I\nThe Green Stick\nI used to believe that there was a green stick, buried on the edge of a ravine in the old Zakaz forest at Yasnaya Polyana, on which words were carved that would destroy all the evil in the hearts of men and bring them everything good.\nLeo Tolstoy\nFONTANA/COLLINS\nFirst published by William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd, 1972 First issued in Fontana 1975 Second impression March 1981\nCopyright © Malcolm Muggeridge 1972\nMade and printed in Great Britain by William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd, Glasgow\nCONDITIONS OF SALE\nThis book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way ot trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser\nContents\nLong ago I copied out from a Life of the French sculptor, Rodin, a letter he addressed to his wife, Rose, dated 24 August, 1913. It occurs to me now that in it he savs to her exactly what I should wish to say to my wi e, Kitty, and that there could be no better place for saying it tnan here. So, transposing the names:\nMy dear Kitty,\nThis letter is just to tell you that my mind is full of the greatness of God’s gift to me when He put you at my side. Keep this thought of mine in your generous heart.\nYour,\nM.\nA Part in Search of a Play\nNous ne vivons jamais, mais nous esperons de vivre; et, nous disposant toujours a etre heureux, il est inevitable que nous le soyons jamais.\nPascal\nWe communicators - vendors of words, to use St Augustine’s expression - tend to accumulate a lot of waste matter as we go along. I mean press-cuttings, maybe pasted up in books, or just stuffed into envelopes; old letters, whether of personal significance, recording some moment of ostensible drama in one’s life, or from unknown correspondents, flattering or abusive (television appearances bring in sackfuls of these), in both cases ministering to one’s self-esteem. Books once con\u001fsidered to be of special interest, or just review copies for some reason unsold to the knackers; for that matter, one’s own books, still standing in tattered dust-jackets on one’s shelves. Photographs, souvenirs, presentations, certificates; even - a mania of my own - all the different passes, laissez-passers, visas and other such documents needed to make one’s way about this increasingly obstructed world. The rags and tatters of a professionally exhibitionist ego. After half, a century in the business, I have a mountain of such junk.\nThe fact that I have allowed these, what the French police call pieces justificatives, to accumulate at all, indic","cbCainBwGFwcIGQF","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCainBwGFwcIGQF","docx",657740,317,"English","en",105,"# Contents\n## A Part in Search of a Play","[{\"question\":\"What does the “green stick” symbolize in this text?\",\"answer\":\"It symbolizes a legendary object on which carved words can destroy evil in people’s hearts and bring them good.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the author say he has accumulated so much “waste matter”?\",\"answer\":\"He describes himself as a “communicator,” gathering press-cuttings, old letters, books, photographs, certificates, and travel documents over decades.\"},{\"question\":\"What does the author think will happen to these collected documents?\",\"answer\":\"He doubts he will ever sort and preserve them; instead, he imagines his beloved Kitty or later descendants may keep, arrange, or even sell them.\"}]","Chronicles of Wasted Time - Part 1 - The Green Stick | DOCX",1788301633,111,{"code":4,"msg":31,"data":32},"ok",{"site_id":24,"language":23,"slug":33,"title":14,"keywords":34,"description":15,"schema_data":35,"social_meta":87,"head_meta":89,"extra_data":91,"updated_unix":28},"chronicles-of-wasted-time-part-1-the-green-stick","",{"@graph":36,"@context":86},[37,54,69],{"@type":38,"itemListElement":39},"BreadcrumbList",[40,44,48,51],{"item":41,"name":42,"@type":43,"position":11},"https://docshare.wps.com","Home","ListItem",{"item":45,"name":46,"@type":43,"position":47},"https://docshare.wps.com/template/","Template",2,{"item":49,"name":13,"@type":43,"position":50},"https://docshare.wps.com/template/general/",3,{"item":52,"name":14,"@type":43,"position":53},"https://docshare.wps.com/template/chronicles-of-wasted-time-part-1-the-green-stick/173243/",4,{"url":52,"name":14,"@type":55,"author":56,"headline":14,"publisher":58,"fileFormat":61,"inLanguage":23,"description":15,"dateModified":62,"datePublished":63,"encodingFormat":61,"isAccessibleForFree":64,"interactionStatistic":65},"DigitalDocument",{"name":9,"@type":57},"Person",{"url":41,"name":59,"@type":60},"DocShare","Organization","application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document","2026-09-05","2026-09-01",true,{"@type":66,"interactionType":67,"userInteractionCount":47},"InteractionCounter",{"@type":68},"ViewAction",{"@type":70,"mainEntity":71},"FAQPage",[72,78,82],{"name":73,"@type":74,"acceptedAnswer":75},"What does the “green stick” symbolize in this text?","Question",{"text":76,"@type":77},"It symbolizes a legendary object on which carved words can destroy evil in people’s hearts and bring them good.","Answer",{"name":79,"@type":74,"acceptedAnswer":80},"Why does the author say he has accumulated so much “waste matter”?",{"text":81,"@type":77},"He describes himself as a “communicator,” gathering press-cuttings, old letters, books, photographs, certificates, and travel documents over decades.",{"name":83,"@type":74,"acceptedAnswer":84},"What does the author think will happen to these collected documents?",{"text":85,"@type":77},"He doubts he will ever sort and preserve them; instead, he imagines his beloved Kitty or later descendants may keep, arrange, or even sell them.","https://schema.org",{"og:url":52,"og:type":88,"og:title":14,"og:site_name":59,"og:description":15},"article",{"robots":90,"canonical":52},"index,follow",{"doc_id":7,"site_id":24},{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":93},[94,99,104,109,114,119,124,129,134],{"id":95,"doc_module":11,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":96,"show_sort_weight":97,"slug":98},11,"Presentations",90,"presentations",{"id":100,"doc_module":11,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":101,"show_sort_weight":102,"slug":103},12,"Resumes",80,"resumes",{"id":105,"doc_module":11,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":106,"show_sort_weight":107,"slug":108},14,"Invoices",70,"invoices",{"id":110,"doc_module":11,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":111,"show_sort_weight":112,"slug":113},15,"Posters",60,"posters",{"id":115,"doc_module":11,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":116,"show_sort_weight":117,"slug":118},16,"Social Media",50,"social-media",{"id":120,"doc_module":11,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":121,"show_sort_weight":122,"slug":123},17,"Forms",40,"forms",{"id":125,"doc_module":11,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":126,"show_sort_weight":127,"slug":128},18,"Letters",30,"letters",{"id":130,"doc_module":11,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":131,"show_sort_weight":132,"slug":133},21,"Paper Templates",5,"papers-templates",{"id":12,"doc_module":11,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":13,"show_sort_weight":4,"slug":135},"general-158"]