Try to get to the point where you are comfortable reading material that has around 10% or more words in both the AWL and the Off-List categories.
To Tie One's Hair on the House Beam and Jab One's Side with an Awl to Keep Oneself Awake Take Great Painswith One's Study It is recorded in Biographies of Virtuous Persons of the Chu State,that in the Eastern Han Dynasty,a man named Sun Jing was a famous politi-clan.
After training in this way for two years, his eyes would not blink even when an awl was flying towards them.
" I then felt as if a red-hot awl were being driven into my jawbone; I writhed and twisted.
Knud's thoughts had been daily with Joanna, and now he knew that she also had thought of him; and the nearer the time came for his apprenticeship to end, the clearer did it appear to him that he loved Joanna, and that she must be his wife; and a smile came on his lips at the thought, and at one time he drew the thread so fast as he worked, and pressed his foot so hard against the knee strap, that he ran the awl into his finger; but what did he care for that?
