Contents
Gerald Stanley Lee
BOOK I
PAGE
INTERFERENCES WITH THE READING HABIT
1
CIVILISATION
3
Dust
3
Dust
5
Dust to Dust
8
Ashes
12
The Literary Rush
15
Parenthesis—To the Gentle Reader
24
More Parenthesis—But More to the Point
28
More Literary Rush
34
The Bugbear of Being Well Informed—A Practical Suggestion
41
The Dead Level of Intelligence
48
The Art of Reading as One Likes
58
THE DISGRACE OF THE IMAGINATION
67
On Wondering Why One Was Born
67
The Top of the Bureau Principle
74
THE UNPOPULARITY OF THE FIRST PERSON SINGULAR
82
The First Person a Necessary Evil
82
The Art of Being Anonymous
89
Egoism and Society
96
i + I = We
99
The Autobiography of Beauty
104
THE HABIT OF NOT LETTING ONE’S SELF GO
109
The Country Boy in Literature
109
The Subconscious Self
115
The Organic Principle of Inspiration
120
THE HABIT OF ANALYSIS
125
If Shakespeare Came to Chicago
125
Analysis Analysed
136
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