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Masks or Faces a Study in the Psychology of Acting. E-book. Formato PDF William Archer - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
To the average intellect, nothing is so alluring as a paradox. The reason is simple: in accepting a paradox, the average intellect feels that it has risen above the average. Any fool can believe what is possible and probable, but it demands no ordinary gifts, whether mental or spiritual, to believe what is absurd. How many an old philosophy has been based, like an inverted pyramid, on an almost imperceptible point of paradox! How many a world-embracing creed has sprung from a tiny contradiction in terms! What is a miracle, indeed, but a paradox in action.? He who has seen a table dancing a hornpipe, or an elderly gentleman reclining on the ceiling instead of on the sofa, naturally feels a certain superiority over the humdrum folk who have seen no miracles save those of Mr. Maskelyne. And if it seems a distinguished thing to believe a paradox, what must it be to invent one? Surely the summit of human ambition.
The Thirteen Days, July 23-August 4, 1914: A Chronicle and Interpretation. E-book. Formato PDF William Archer - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
I have not (consciously at any rate) selected evidence with a view to making a case, but have tried to give the substance of all the really significant documents, cutting away repetitions and verbiage, and condensing very freely, but quoting verbatim such passages and expres sions as seemed to me of crucial importance. Wherever quotation-marks are employed, I have taken only the most tri?ing liberties with the text, such as substituting Austria for austria-hungary changing the first person into the third, and so forth. Italics are throughout my own. They appear very rarely in the original docu ments, perhaps because of the fact that most of these are telegrams.