A Book of Words
Autor: Kipling, Rudyard
Nakladatelství:
Thomas C. Breuer
ISBN: 9780836918847
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88 Kč
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80 Kč
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To Demeter the Winnower Heronax dedicates these.But if there be any among them serviceable to a wayfarer, let him also share. Contents: LiteratureThe Claims of ArtValues in LifeImperial RelationsGrowth and ResponsibilityThe Handicaps of LettersA Doctor's WorkThe Spirit of the NavyThe Ritual of GovernmentThe Verdict of EqualsThe Uses of ReadingSome Aspects of TravelThe War and the SchoolsThe Magic SquareThe First SailorEngland and the EnglishThe Scot and the WarThe Virtue of FranceA ThesisA Return to CivilisationThe Trees and the WallWaking From DreamsSurgeons and the SoulIndependenceThe Classics and the SciencesWork in the FutureShippingStationeryFictionThe Spirit of the LatinOur Indian Troops in Francea selection from: I - Literature I am Earth, overtaking all things except words. They alone escape me. Therefore, I lie heavy on their makers. Royal Academy Dinner: May 1906 A GREAT, and I frankly admit, a somewhat terrifying, honour has come to me; but I think, compliments apart, that the most case-hardened worker in letters, speaking to such an assembly as this, must recognise the gulf that separates even the least of those who do things worthy to be written about from even the best of those who have written things worthy of being talked about. There is an ancient legend which tells us that when a man first achieved a most notable deed he wished to explain to his Tribe what he had done. As soon as he began to speak, however, he was smitten with dumbness, he lacked words, and sat down. Then there arose-according to the story-a masterless man, one who had taken no part in the action of his fellow, who had no special virtues, but who was afflicted-that is the phrase-with the magic of the necessary word. He saw; he told; he described the merits of the notable deed in such a fashion, we are assured, that the words ""became alive and walked up and down in the hearts of all his hearers"". Thereupon, the Tribe seeing that the words were certainly alive, and fearing lest the man with the words would hand down untrue tales about them to their children, took and killed him. But, later, they saw that the magic was in the words, not in the man. We have progressed in many directions since the time of this early and destructive criticism, but, so far, we do not seem to have found a sufficient substitute for the necessary word as the final record to which all achievement must look. Even to-day, when all is done, those who have done it must wait until all has been said by the masterless man with the words. It is certain that the overwhelming bulk of those words will perish in the future as they have perished in the past; but it is true that a minute fraction will continue to exist, and by the light of these words, and by that light only, will our children be able to judge of the phases of our generation. Now we desire beyond all things to stand well with our children; but when our story comes to be told we do not know who will have the telling of it. We are too close to the tellers; there are many tellers and they are all talking together; and, even if we know them, we must not kill them. But the old and terrible instinct which taught our ancestors to kill the original story-teller warns us that we shall not be far wrong if we challenge any man who shows signs of being afflicted with the magic of the necessary word.Hodnocení uživatelů:
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