Do I Get My Nails Clipped During A Pedicure?

When you're working a lifetime fit in a matchbox

Here is a text that perfectly exemplifies why Joseph Conrad is more than a simple narrator adventurous adventures.

"He reached for the matchbox to return to his corner on the shelf. There was always at his command matches. Long ago the waiter had been properly instructed. [..]

He, meanwhile, handled carefully always leave it in place. And this is what he did then, but before release, it struck him that perhaps they would never have the chance to use that box. It was a thought so vivid that he stood and, for an infinitesimal fraction second, his fingers closed again around the small object as if it had been the symbol of all those little habits that bind us to the tedious round of life. Eventually the loose and flopping on the couch, listened intently to catch the first sounds of the wind coming back "

" Typhoon "by Joseph Conrad