Chats on Violoncellos

Chats on Violoncellos

FogThe South Kensington MuseumThe RavanastronArabiaThe Kemangeh GouzeEgypt, and the Rabab Is there any city in the world that canmetaphorically speakinghold up its head beside this place of mysteryLondon in a fog? Paris, Berlin, Vienna, St Petersburg, New Yorkwhat can they do in the production of a bilious-green, murky-yellow species of hyperphysical abomination? Nothing! Yet we English are not in the least proud of our prerogative. Perhaps elation is impossible among such depressing surroundings, or, perhaps the true British spirit of being satisfied with everything that is British, because it is British, predominates too utterly to admit of any other emotion. From whatever cause our inertia springs, the clue is too deeply locked away in every Cockneys heart to be revealed. The effect, however,[Pg 2] is plainly seen in the total lack of epic poetry, or chromatic musical depiction of the thing. Our literature does not teem with such lines as: No! genius ignores the subject, and fills in the weary hours of darkness with sighs, and gasps, and chokes, like ordinary mortals. What an outlook greets us this dull November day! Misty bricks and mortar emerge and disappear like swiftly buried cities. Hazy, indefinite, dubious figures loom upon us out of the darkness, like ancestral ghosts; dull thuds, faint cries, strange stampings and gratings are transmitted to our ears with telephonic minuteness; and all the while our throats are aching, our eyes are streaming, our noses are smarting, the motor bus is useless, andwe dont know where we are. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 57130
Author: Racster, Olga
Release Date: May 10, 2018
Format: eBook
Language: English