The Wine of the Puritans; a Study of Present-Day America
The Wine of the Puritans; a Study of Present-Day America
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Very often it serves to satirize 98 THE WINE OF THE PURITANS a temporary over-emphasis of certain human tendencies, or to speak the special humours of a single race. Bu' in the main it seeks to picture man as in all times and places he ought to be, by leading before a kind of high court of genial justice men and measures that stand for what man ought not to be. It cuts away all varia- tions from the normal type." **And the humorist ought to make people not only see but love what is true and nor...mal." *'Yes, he ought to have a perception of the truth not in the mind merely, with its logical realization that what is normal is also useful to the general good, but that perception of the heart also which is the final blossom of a long evolution of dead minds sadly familiar in their day with the weakness and erior that lead men aside. It will convince people not merely because it is just, but because its justice is tempered with an understanding of the ways and the delights of injustice." 99 THE WINE OF THE PURITANS ** But our humour is a kind which has neither past nor future, but only the moment of its flash, a humour not sprung from genial soil nor reflecting the tears and smiles of dead genera- tions, not the humour of sentiment or pathos — it is a humour of light rather than heat, a humour of the pure intelligence, so harsh that if it expressed an enduring mood it would be cynical It is often what we call dry humour — the kind which rustles through a man's lips without being tinged with blood from his heart, flaring up electrically for its occasion and subsid- ing grey and chilly, scintillating out of a sordid background, a humour of shifts and grit, common sense and bitter pluck.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Very often it serves to satirize 98 THE WINE OF THE PURITANS a temporary over-emphasis of certain human tendencies, or to speak the special humours of a single race. Bu' in the main it seeks to picture man as in all times and places he ought to be, by leading before a kind of high court of genial justice men and measures that stand for what man ought not to be. It cuts away all varia- tions from the normal type." **And the humorist ought to make people not only see but love what is true and nor...mal." *'Yes, he ought to have a perception of the truth not in the mind merely, with its logical realization that what is normal is also useful to the general good, but that perception of the heart also which is the final blossom of a long evolution of dead minds sadly familiar in their day with the weakness and erior that lead men aside. It will convince people not merely because it is just, but because its justice is tempered with an understanding of the ways and the delights of injustice." 99 THE WINE OF THE PURITANS ** But our humour is a kind which has neither past nor future, but only the moment of its flash, a humour not sprung from genial soil nor reflecting the tears and smiles of dead genera- tions, not the humour of sentiment or pathos — it is a humour of light rather than heat, a humour of the pure intelligence, so harsh that if it expressed an enduring mood it would be cynical It is often what we call dry humour — the kind which rustles through a man's lips without being tinged with blood from his heart, flaring up electrically for its occasion and subsid- ing grey and chilly, scintillating out of a sordid background, a humour of shifts and grit, common sense and bitter pluck.
What to read after The Wine of the Puritans; a Study of Present-Day America?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Brooks, Van Wyck, 1886-1963 to read onlineMoreLess
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