Body And Soul Or the Method of Economy
Body And Soul Or the Method of Economy
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' How could it be otherwise ? Let the reader pause for a moment, and divesting his mind of all its customary prejudices, and the deadening effect of habitual familiarity, look hard at these forms, these SHAPES that hedge him in on every side. Only consider the oddness, the irregularity, the anomalous and grotesque nature of these shapes, if we can but forget for a moment what the things are. A book, a watch, a hatchet, a guitar, a rifle, an orchid, a squirrel, a fish, an omnibus, a sheep, a cou...rt of justice, a porcupine, a special religious service what you will : what are these shapes, what can they be, but just what the work they have to do requires them to be ? How can shape receive any other explanation of its origin and existence than func- 150 Body and Soul.
tion ? Apart from its function, any shape is a mon- strous, an absurd and unaccountable lusus natures. And herein lies the quaint and always bizarre effect of any thing organic or artificial, antique or unfamiliar foreign body of which we do not know and cannot readily see the use.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
' How could it be otherwise ? Let the reader pause for a moment, and divesting his mind of all its customary prejudices, and the deadening effect of habitual familiarity, look hard at these forms, these SHAPES that hedge him in on every side. Only consider the oddness, the irregularity, the anomalous and grotesque nature of these shapes, if we can but forget for a moment what the things are. A book, a watch, a hatchet, a guitar, a rifle, an orchid, a squirrel, a fish, an omnibus, a sheep, a cou...rt of justice, a porcupine, a special religious service what you will : what are these shapes, what can they be, but just what the work they have to do requires them to be ? How can shape receive any other explanation of its origin and existence than func- 150 Body and Soul.
tion ? Apart from its function, any shape is a mon- strous, an absurd and unaccountable lusus natures. And herein lies the quaint and always bizarre effect of any thing organic or artificial, antique or unfamiliar foreign body of which we do not know and cannot readily see the use.
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