![]() ![]() But afterwards, if the devices of this declining art of literature prevail, you will go with him through curious and interesting experiences. Him you must imagine as sitting at a table reading a manuscript about Utopias, a manuscript he holds in two hands that are just a little fat at the wrist. And his Voice (which is our medium henceforth) is an unattractive tenor that becomes at times aggressive. Occasionally his hand flies out with a fluttering gesture of illustration. He droops at times like most of us, but for the greater part he bears himself as valiantly as a sparrow. ![]() The Owner of the Voice you must figure to yourself as a whitish plump man, a little under the middle size and age, with such blue eyes as many Irishmen have, and agile in his movements and with a slight tonsorial baldness-a penny might cover it-of the crown. You have to clear your mind of any preconceptions in that respect. ![]() Now, this Voice, and this is the peculiarity of the matter, is not to be taken as the Voice of the ostensible author who fathers these pages. Throughout these papers sounds a note, a distinctive and personal note, a note that tends at times towards stridency and all that is not, as these words are, in Italics, is in one Voice. And here, indeed, because of a very natural misunderstanding this is the only course to take. There are works, and this is one of them, that are best begun with a portrait of the author. ![]()
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