Come Dance With Me: A Memoir, 1898-1956 - Softcover
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I am going to miss my companion of the last fifteen months' shared adventures, for a manuscript, I have discovered, is the ideal friend - silent and accommodating. It remains unresentful when mislaid, or when it is overworked by an attack of zeal and spare time on the part of the writer. It will stay submissive when erased, corrected and blue - pencilled to pieces. It exudes passive friendliness when you discard it after midnight, with a glow of content concerning your thoughts just expressed on its white surface. It turns the other cheek next morning, when, on re - reading your literary carryings - ou of the night before, you are aghast: you forthwith erase rudely and scratch hysterically at the surface of your patient friend - and who knows if its passivity might not reflect the fact that it could have told you all this last night?
The manuscript is, above all, your kindest editor - for it does not condemn or argue: silently it shows you the insufferable depths of your grammatical errors - crashing clichés and befogged thinking.
I am going to miss exercising my mind with the vivid business of remembering things forgotten - delving backwards into time towards some incident glowing clearly, in a lost world that has made the correct year, day and date of the picture under survey of secondary importance. Such research spells tedium, and, as always, the amateur loses patience over matters that are concerned with dry precise reckoning.
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I am going to miss my companion of the last fifteen months' shared adventures, for a manuscript, I have discovered, is the ideal friend - silent and accommodating. It remains unresentful when mislaid, or when it is overworked by an attack of zeal and spare time on the part of the writer. It will stay submissive when erased, corrected and blue - pencilled to pieces. It exudes passive friendliness when you discard it after midnight, with a glow of content concerning your thoughts just expressed on its white surface. It turns the other cheek next morning, when, on re - reading your literary carryings - ou of the night before, you are aghast: you forthwith erase rudely and scratch hysterically at the surface of your patient friend - and who knows if its passivity might not reflect the fact that it could have told you all this last night?
The manuscript is, above all, your kindest editor - for it does not condemn or argue: silently it shows you the insufferable depths of your grammatical errors - crashing clichés and befogged thinking.
I am going to miss exercising my mind with the vivid business of remembering things forgotten - delving backwards into time towards some incident glowing clearly, in a lost world that has made the correct year, day and date of the picture under survey of secondary importance. Such research spells tedium, and, as always, the amateur loses patience over matters that are concerned with dry precise reckoning.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
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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- PublisherPrinceton Book Co Pub
- ISBN 10 0903102021
- ISBN 13 9780903102025
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages234
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Come Dance with Me
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