Life — November 7, 1907 — page 8: what you’re looking at

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Shaw has done for the stage, and what our own Mr. Bok has done, is doing, and will do, for “moral ethics,” lingerie and letters, * * * M NWHILE we must content our- selves with correcting, as far as lies in our power, the misconception that lit- erary copy can be “ground out” like meal in a mill, without reference to the state of the soul, the variable tone of the nervous system, the condition of the delicate mus- cles in the forearm (so susceptible of im- pairment in the frenzy of prose composi- tion), or the exterior adjuncts and atmos- phere that exercise such a potent influence on the sensitive, temperamental artist. “Memory is not genius: idiots have wrote volumes,” as dear old Martin Tupper has sagely said, and an aptitude for lyric pro: duction while bumping the bumps is not— essentially, at least—a concomitant of the highest order of talent. * * * ECAUSE Stanley Waterloo is at his literary best in a rushing railway train, and the facile Carolyn Wells can do fancy work while satisfying the most exacting demands of her publisher, it does not fol low that less gifted penmen are equally in different to uproar and distractions. have seen genius—(identity furnished on application) —writhe with tongue in cheek like any illiterate booby more alert with pitchfork than pen. We have seen a cele- brated professional humorist—(identity withheld through scruples of delicacy)—so put out because some one had wantonly mislaid his bottle of indispensable green ink that for a whole day he practiced wri ting sense instead of nonsense. No king’s jester, minus his motley, could have been more forlorn. It is no secret to the cog- noscenti (nowadays so unhappily saluted as those “‘in the know”) that the famous author of a recent best-seller—(advertis ing rates made known in the proper de partment)—was threatened with an acute case of invita Minerva, complicated with typomotor ataxia, because his supply of pink paper gave out at a critical moment. We could multiply such instances—as that of an accomplished lady journalist—(deli- cacy again forbids, ctc.)—whose head failed in the performance of its professional functions unless her feet were kept im- mersed in cold water. We could fortify these instances by others taken from the classics—(if anybody gave a tinker’s dam for the classics)—of great pocts with padded rooms, of playwrights dependent on candle-light, of novelists who were slaves to a peculiar color of wall-paper. We would like to emphasize all this, by way of contrast, with such awful examples as that of Sir Edwin Arnold, who wrote “The Light of Asia” on his cuffs, while traveling to and fro in a London ’bus, and comicbooks.com