The Mountains And Other Nature Sketches
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It is so placed above the Mediterranean, and not too far above it as to command a long stretch of the irregular and mountainous coast line, and so make possible and fasci- nating what I will call the imaginative localization of history. As a man rests there under the ancient olive trees, he is sure to call up the great past in empire, or in art, or in literature; then he looks along the coast until he fixes upon a rela- tive point ; then he thinks : "Just over there they landed," or "Just over ...there he was born," or "Just over there it all took place." In this way you picture the past, reproduce person and scene, and fling your heart hotly out into the vast region 108 THE MOUNTAINS of history. And there may come tran- scendent moments when the vastness of your historic reach seems to be augmented by the vastness of the sea, especially so when the blue space of water is enlarged as the horizon line is pushed back and back into vagueness by the sun-beaten track of molten silver. In such an ex- perience the centuries drop away like falling waves, you feel a suggestion of the Infinite, and you know exactly what the poet meant by the expression, "The press of immensity's caress." Of all these dramatic localizations, there is one picture which appears again and again.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
It is so placed above the Mediterranean, and not too far above it as to command a long stretch of the irregular and mountainous coast line, and so make possible and fasci- nating what I will call the imaginative localization of history. As a man rests there under the ancient olive trees, he is sure to call up the great past in empire, or in art, or in literature; then he looks along the coast until he fixes upon a rela- tive point ; then he thinks : "Just over there they landed," or "Just over ...there he was born," or "Just over there it all took place." In this way you picture the past, reproduce person and scene, and fling your heart hotly out into the vast region 108 THE MOUNTAINS of history. And there may come tran- scendent moments when the vastness of your historic reach seems to be augmented by the vastness of the sea, especially so when the blue space of water is enlarged as the horizon line is pushed back and back into vagueness by the sun-beaten track of molten silver. In such an ex- perience the centuries drop away like falling waves, you feel a suggestion of the Infinite, and you know exactly what the poet meant by the expression, "The press of immensity's caress." Of all these dramatic localizations, there is one picture which appears again and again.
What to read after The Mountains And Other Nature Sketches?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Olin Alfred Curtis to read onlineMoreLess
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