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Select Conversations with an Uncle: (Now Extinct)

Select Conversations with an Uncle: (Now Extinct)

Wells, H. G.

Paperback

General Fiction

ISBN10: 154466608X
ISBN13: 9781544666082
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Mar 16 2017
Pages: 56
Weight: 0.19
Height: 0.12 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
The fashionable and vulgar are after all but the expression of man's gregarious instinct. Every poor mortal is torn by the conflicting dreads of being 'common-place, ' and of being 'eccentric.' He, and more particularly she, is continually imitating and avoiding imitation, trying to be singular and yet like other people. In the exquisitely fashionable and in the entirely vulgar the sheep-like longing is triumphant, and the revolting individual has disappeared. The former is a mechanical vehicle upon which the new 'correct thing' rides forth, to extort the astonishment of men; the latter a lifeless bier bearing its corrupt and unrecognisable remains away to final oblivion, amidst universal execration. It is curious to notice, George, that there has of late been a fashion in 'originality.

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