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College and the Future; Essays for the Undergraduate on Problems of Character and Intellect

College and the Future; Essays for the Undergraduate on Problems of Character and Intellect

Rice, Richard Ashley

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General World History

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ISBN10: 1458820890
ISBN13: 9781458820891
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 196
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.23 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1915. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... COLLEGE AND THE FUTURE PART I LEARNING TO WRITE RICHARD RICE, JR. /. The Nature of Literary Art and Its Technique Why is learning to write so difficult? The simplest and also the deepest reason is because all writing is done in the shadow of infinite possibilities--those of the writer's unknown powers for thought and those of the fine art of literature. But if this is the reason why learning to write is difficult, it is also the reason why it is inspiring. Literary art is not inaccessible. It is not the achievement of professionals alone. It is part of the same energy which any man displays when he writes a good letter or converses well of an evening. It is a thing more and more understood as one observes life, profits by experience, and learns to know himself. It is the art with which we all inevitably gfow more and more intimate all our lives. It may be called the technique of life. Learning to write is difficult for the same reason that it is difficult for a boy to think like a man. It can be done. Little by little it is done. But to do it outright is rare. All this means that learning to write is but part of learning to grow up. For writing is thinking. Undoubtedly there is something ironical in the fact that at the very time when the world shines in the most glowing colors to our eyes and calls most interestingly to our imaginations, we should find ourselves incapable of giving any correspondingly vivid and poignant account of it. It is curious to note that one can hardly find a prose record of the feelings and opinions of youth made on the hour, with whatever degree of technical skill, which does not lack, paradoxically, the vital energy that inspired it, which does not shortly appear both to youth and to time thin and unsatisfying. But this aspect of the ...

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