Excerpt from Tertium Quid, Vol. 2 of 2: Chapters on Various Disputed Questions Xhad the originality to make it or the honesty to avow it. And the moral of the incident, though most immediately applicable to those who confound satiety with enjoyment, has in reality a far wider lscope. The instinct of going straight for inform ation as to what we really like to the best authority, 1 namely ourselves, is truly a rare one. It would be ablow to most of us, could our feelings towards very much that we reckon among the pleasures ...
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Excerpt from Tertium Quid, Vol. 2 of 2: Chapters on Various Disputed Questions Xhad the originality to make it or the honesty to avow it. And the moral of the incident, though most immediately applicable to those who confound satiety with enjoyment, has in reality a far wider lscope. The instinct of going straight for inform ation as to what we really like to the best authority, 1 namely ourselves, is truly a rare one. It would be ablow to most of us, could our feelings towards very much that we reckon among the pleasures of life he suddenly viewed from a standpoint as de terminedly individual as Rousseau's, and divested of all reference to what we are expected to like, or vaguely suppose that other people like. So viewed, the various scenes which figure in novels as types of complete well-rounded enjoyment might often startle us with their patchy and scrappy appearance. Balls, parties, art-galleries, the Opera - the things the world says that it likes and then believes what it says - what flaws might not each in turn reveal to one and another of us? What vistas of weariness might we not look back along and recognise for our own? It is naturally in the domain of Art that this thought becomes most oppressive. For social fictions much may always be said on the whole. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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