|
The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Lesson of the Master by Henry James: spoiled; she has picked up a fashion or two, but only the amusing
ones. She's a provincial - a provincial of genius," St. George
went on; "her very blunders are charming, her mistakes are
interesting. She has come back from Asia with all sorts of excited
curiosities and unappeased appetities. She's first-rate herself
and she expends herself on the second-rate. She's life herself and
she takes a rare interest in imitations. She mixes all things up,
but there are none in regard to which she hasn't perceptions. She
sees things in a perspective - as if from the top of the Himalayas
- and she enlarges everything she touches. Above all she
exaggerates - to herself, I mean. She exaggerates you and me!"
|
