Why do we conceive the desire
to give expression to things that cannot be said—and sometimes succeed? Such
success is a phenomenon that occurs when a subtle arrangement of words excites
the reader’s imagination to an extreme degree; at that moment, author and reader
become accomplices in a crime of the imagination. And when their complicity gives
rise to a work of literature—that “thing that is not a thing”— people call it “creation”
and inquire no further.
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The cynicism that regards all hero worship as comical is always shadowed by a sense
of physical inferiority. Invariably, it is the man who believes himself to be physically
lacking in heroic attributes who speaks mockingly of the hero; and when he does so,
how dishonest it is that his phraseology, partaking ostensibly of a logic so universal
and general, should not (or at least should be assumed by the general public not to)
give any clue to his physical characteristics. I have yet to hear hero worship mocked
by a man endowed with what might justly be called heroic physical attributes.
Πόσο αλήθεια.
