Excerpt: ...supreme faculty of vision and expression. It must be a fiery trial to see deep, wise, beautiful things produced by a man who can't live his thoughts-can only write them." "But what should a man do?" I said. "Well," said Father Payne, "I think, as a practical matter, it would be a good thing to cultivate a hobby of a manual kind-and also, above all, the power of genial loafing. Of course, the real pity is that we are not all taught to do some house-work as a matter of course-we depend too much on servants, and ...
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Excerpt: ...supreme faculty of vision and expression. It must be a fiery trial to see deep, wise, beautiful things produced by a man who can't live his thoughts-can only write them." "But what should a man do?" I said. "Well," said Father Payne, "I think, as a practical matter, it would be a good thing to cultivate a hobby of a manual kind-and also, above all, the power of genial loafing. Of course, the real pity is that we are not all taught to do some house-work as a matter of course-we depend too much on servants, and house-work is the natural and amusing outlet of our physical energies; as it is, we specialise too much, and half of our maladies and discomforts and miseries are due to that-that we work a part of ourselves too hard, and the other parts not hard enough. The thing to aim at is equanimity, and the existence of unsatisfied instincts in us is what poisons life for many people." He was silent for a little, and then he said, "And then, too, there is the great danger of all writers-the feeling that he has the power of giving people what they want, when he ought to remember that he has only the good fortune of expressing what people feel. Art oughtn't to be a thing sprinkled on life, as you shake sugar out on to a pudding-it is just a power of disentangling things; we suffer most of us from finding life too complicated-we don't understand it-it's a mass of confused impressions. Well, the artist puts it all in order, isolates the important things, makes the values distinct-he helps people to feel clearly-that's his only use. And then, if he succeeds, there come silly flatteries and adorations-until he gets to feel as if he were handing down pots of jam and bottles of wine from a high shelf out of reach-until he grows to believe that he put them there, when he only found them there. It's a dreadful thing for an artist never to succeed at all, because then his life appears the most useless business conceivable; but it is almost a...
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Very Good-with no dust jacket. Text is clean. Previous owner bookplate on front pastedown. Different owner name/address ink stamped on front free endpaper. Cover shows wear, corners/spine ends rubbed. NAP. Title page date 1916.