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A Son of Perdition

A Son of Perdition

Hume, Fergus

Paperback

HorrorGeneral Fiction

ISBN10: 1544285671
ISBN13: 9781544285672
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Mar 25 2017
Pages: 292
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.61 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
How can any one hope to transfer that to canvas? asked the artist, surveying the many-coloured earth and sky and sea with despairing eyes. Easily enough, replied the girl at his elbow, those who see twice as vividly as others, can make others see once as vividly as they do. That is what we call genius. A large word for my small capabilities, Miss Enistor. Am I a genius? Ask yourself, Mr. Hardwick, for none other than yourself can answer truly. Outside his special gift the artist was not over clever, so he lounged on the yielding turf of the slope to turn the speech over in his mind and wait results. This tall solidly built Saxon only arrived at conclusions by slow degrees of laborious reflection. With his straight athletic figure, closely clipped fair hair and a bronzed complexion, against which his moustache looked almost white, he resembled a soldier rather than a painter. Yet a painter he was of some trifling fame, but being only moderately creative, he strove to supply what was wanting by toilsome work. He had not so much the steady fire of genius as the crackling combustion of talent. Thus the grim Cornish country and the far-stretching Atlantic waters, so magically beautiful under an opalescent sunset, baffled him for the moment.

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