Excerpt from The Oakleyites But it must not be supposed that Oakleyites are stay-at-home folk, or that they either despise or ignore the beauties and interests of other places. They do neither: they constantly fly abroad, like honey-gathering bees, and rob those alien flowers of their sweetnesses. But the point is that, like the bees, they bring the essences home to the hive, and alchemise them with culture waving of indus trions wings into wax and honey. The flowers, they will gladly admit, grow outside ...
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Excerpt from The Oakleyites But it must not be supposed that Oakleyites are stay-at-home folk, or that they either despise or ignore the beauties and interests of other places. They do neither: they constantly fly abroad, like honey-gathering bees, and rob those alien flowers of their sweetnesses. But the point is that, like the bees, they bring the essences home to the hive, and alchemise them with culture waving of indus trions wings into wax and honey. The flowers, they will gladly admit, grow outside the hive, and they no more grudge the trouble of travelling to them, than, it may be supposed, the bees go wea rily out to the starred meadows. But bees and Oakleyites alike turn homewards when they have gathered: they do not make fresh hives where flowers are more plentiful, establishing them selves in London or Paris or Rome, or the bay of Naples. They sack those places instead, and bring their spoils home, in the shape of photo graphs, sketches and annotated guide-bo oks. There, as we have said, they convert them into honey, avoiding thereby the Transatlantic heresy that to have ticked off a shrine or a volcano 1n your guide-book is to have digested its signifi cance. 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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