Another gem from Gerald Stanley Lee, once again from The Lost Art of Reading, GP Putnam’s Sons, 1903. Via Odd Ends.
As with all Gerald Stanley Lee’s writings, modern readers should say it aloud, with the innumerable commas enforced breaths. The poetry of the drawl, the long list of phrases, makes the modern limited mind lose [...]
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from The Lost Art of Reading (1903):
I had finished writing these chapters on the philosophic mind, and was just reading them over, thinking how true they were, and how valuable they were for me, and how I must act on them, when I heard a soft “Pooh!” from somewhere way down in the depths of [...]
From Gerald Stanley Lee’s The Lost Art of Reading, 1902:
The population of the civilised world today may be divided into two classes,—millionaires and those who would like to be millionaires. The rest are artists, poets, tramps, and babies—and do not count. Poets and artists do not count until after they are dead. Tramps are put [...]
From Gerald Stanley Lee’s Crowds, 1913. Read it aloud, as with all of Lee, every damned word of it, aloud, until you get it right, until it’s in your blood and bones and mind and you can see the world he saw back then, right now:
There is a boy at this very moment with [...]
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One is reminded of the sinkholes of northwest Kentucky….
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The Lost Art of Reading
I wish Google bothered to punctuate. We’re scanning another copy, and will send it through Distributed Proofreaders soon, but in the meantime read the page scans from Google if [...]
Scanning a copy of The Lost Art of Reading, by Gerald Stanley Lee. Google has already scanned one, but mine will be better.
When one considers that it is a literal, scientific, demonstrable fact that there is not a single evil that can be named in modern life, social, religious, political, or industrial, which is not [...]
The Voice of the Machines by Gerald Stanley Lee – Project Gutenberg
The one book from 1906 you should read today.
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Probably won’t be able to attend.
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I mentioned Gerald Stanley Lee’s The Voice of the Machines in a pub conversation a couple of days back, and I see awareness of it starting to seep out through the del.icio.us network. From the time almost a year ago when Lee Spector mentioned the book, to when I had it in my hands and [...]
I was enjoying an after-dinner cruise on Puget Sound at the GECCO conference this summer, and chatting with Lee Spector about Distributed Proofreaders. He mentioned a book he’d discovered in his local library, which was weird and engaging, poetical and industrial, kooky and profound at turns.
Just my thing, on all counts.
And so here it is [...]
Another extract from Gerald Stanley Lee’s The Voice of the Machines (1906):
The machines of the world are all practically engaged in manufacturing the same thing. They are all time-and-space-machines. They knit time and space. Hundreds of thousands of things may be put in machines this very day, for us, before night falls, but only eternity [...]
Pontification without all the gritty gravitas
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