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6 comments:
I think I can take this one up - the previous format was beyond me.
Here are my results:
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finest reader of English I have ever heard. What he has accomplished? Nothing! Who has ever heard of him? No one, except a few [??] for whom he makes [??] And why? He has too much genius, never sticks to anything two days in his life. For my part - from childhood up I have led such a busy life, that I am wretched when idle. Indeed "doing nothing" is the task as difficult for me, as rolling the
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stone up the hill, then down again was to Sisphus [sic]. And looking at it from another point of view, I think it wicked to lead a life of idleness & believe, as firmly as I believe in my God, that we must render an account of talents given & not used. Indeed the parable of the talents is one of the most forcible in all the teachings of the sweet, but lowly Nazarene. My Rector used to say that I was born with as distinctive
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a mission as any one he had ever known - & that mission was to teach though my writings, the right & the wrong, the follies & weaknesses of human nature - He also said I possess a rare combination, which at the same time as recognizing all the light & shadow of right & wrong, felt a broad sympathy for all the foibles of humanity - I once hoped all this was true, prayerfully, & in the sight & fear of God,
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"Genius meant daily labor." And so it does. In point of fact, was every any-thing accomplished without hard, daily, persistent & consistent work? [??] I know a "[??], genius, lunatic, fanatic" re re re in this city of Bohemians, who has enough real genius or divine afflatus, to make half a dozen poets & half a dozen more brilliant musicians - besides which he is the
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A few notes: Page 8 seems to follow Page 6 logically, even though the numbering doesn't. There are two words on the first page and two more on the last one that I can not decipher, but one of the latter seems to have been scored through.
Also on the final page appears the expression "divine afflatus", which is totally new to me, but appears to be an actual term, although not one with which I am familiar.
I needed to repost and delete several times in order to read the various pages in the light of each other. I hope the above effort is helpful to you in your research.
afllatus: a divine creative impulse or inspiration.
Thanks much. Yes, very helpful.
P. 5 - a few “nobodies”
Thanks, Binder. That is correct.
"for whom he makes pastime." seems to be the solution to the other. Bad grammar but fits the evident letters. P[a]stime. See the dot over the i?
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