Excerpt from Literary Snapshots: Impressions of Contemporary Authors Hat would you have called them? Portraits? Humour forbid! Sketches? Perhaps; but then even sketches imply the use of brush, pencil or pen, and neither oil, water-color, graphite nor ink was employed in their primary composition. Surely they aren't engravings, etchings, lithographs or woodcuts. They slipped into consciousness too suddenly and much too vaguely to be written on steel or copper, stone or even wood. They bubbled into being, as it were, under ...
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Excerpt from Literary Snapshots: Impressions of Contemporary Authors Hat would you have called them? Portraits? Humour forbid! Sketches? Perhaps; but then even sketches imply the use of brush, pencil or pen, and neither oil, water-color, graphite nor ink was employed in their primary composition. Surely they aren't engravings, etchings, lithographs or woodcuts. They slipped into consciousness too suddenly and much too vaguely to be written on steel or copper, stone or even wood. They bubbled into being, as it were, under skies of an amazingly serene blue, but skies mise chievous for all that, and it isn't so far from the truth to say that they were scratched on sand, the sands of Bermuda, with a brine moist twig of cedar. The incoming tide blurred many an impression, made some of the char acterizations read like skits, others like senti ments, a few like pasquinades. The lot, a heterogeneous gathering, were photographed by my familiar with tongue in cheek. Why don't you publish these-what-you call he suggested. As what? They resemble poems, said I somewhat lamely. Do they? He chuckled. Well, they don't look like prose. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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