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Page vii
... called in by the Devil when the rest seemed flagging . This crude emblematic improvisation at first satisfied my need for expression . But the thing once written , I began to see its shallowness . Surely this visible performance was not ...
... called in by the Devil when the rest seemed flagging . This crude emblematic improvisation at first satisfied my need for expression . But the thing once written , I began to see its shallowness . Surely this visible performance was not ...
Page viii
... called in with their various instruments , nor Ballet Master Death given his great Benefit Performance , if Self - Interest , instead of turning on his side to sleep his Sunday's sleep , had kept an eye on the little doings in embassies ...
... called in with their various instruments , nor Ballet Master Death given his great Benefit Performance , if Self - Interest , instead of turning on his side to sleep his Sunday's sleep , had kept an eye on the little doings in embassies ...
Page ix
... called War . It also has its spiritual , I will not say flowers , nor even fruits , but just vege- tation , of thoughts . And these Notes , which some readers might call not moral but immoral Essays , are made out of such thereof as I ...
... called War . It also has its spiritual , I will not say flowers , nor even fruits , but just vege- tation , of thoughts . And these Notes , which some readers might call not moral but immoral Essays , are made out of such thereof as I ...
Page x
... called notes thereto . I will not call such thoughts weeds , unless by weeds we mean all hardy vegetation one does not like . I did not , in pre- war years , like thinking about Hatred , Self - Righteousness and Righteousness and Fear ...
... called notes thereto . I will not call such thoughts weeds , unless by weeds we mean all hardy vegetation one does not like . I did not , in pre- war years , like thinking about Hatred , Self - Righteousness and Righteousness and Fear ...
Page xi
... called War ; but covered it all over with other thoughts , more agreeable to one's private contemplation and fitter for exhibition to one's friends . Nowadays I find little else to think about , or rather cannot keep my mind from them ...
... called War ; but covered it all over with other thoughts , more agreeable to one's private contemplation and fitter for exhibition to one's friends . Nowadays I find little else to think about , or rather cannot keep my mind from them ...
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2ND VOICE Adventure Adversary æsthetic AGES-TO-COME altruism Ballet Master Death become belief belligerent Bertrand Russell Brachycephalous Brobdingnag Cæsarea called cinema shows creatures dance dangerous dear Clio decent Delusion and Confusion desire emotional enemy evil existence eyes fact feeling friends future German Gog and Magog gramophone wheezes habits hand happens harmonium Hatred hence Heroism honour horror human Idealism implies Indignation individual IST VOICE Justice kind larning less look Lord Satan man's mankind means merely mind moral moralists moreover Muse of History Nations nature neighbours never once one's Orchestra ourselves passions Patriotism peace perhaps persons play poor preference present qualities Reality reason recognize religion require result Romain Rolland sacrifice self-sacrifice sense side soul spiritual suffering sure Themistocles things thought tion truth turn war's Waste Waster Widow Fear words writing