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May 3, 1941:
Words, Telegrams Epstein's Autobiography
Clerihews
LET THERE BE TURE. By Jacob Michael Joseph 188.
SCULP and ending with the huge marks that this prolificness Epsetin. "Adam" of 1939, As & seemed a source of annoyance to THE structure of words is a telegrams the initial letters of
sincere and sensitivo artist, bad taste!
Bomo critics really a sign of never-falling source of en- which spell AMUSEMENT. tertainment-ns witness the
THE publication of Jacob the author deprecates the continuing popularity of Cross-
Epstein's autobiography storm of criticism which has Point is given to the author's words. And, Crosswords apart, ing Elephants. Menage Evi-warring world. It is a mag make him deny his inner but also the brilliant portrait Auntie Mystified. Uncle See is a major event, even in a greeted almost all his work, argument by a whole series of there are several forms of
but no power on earth could magnificent photographs, illus- amusement based on wordstruc- took me just under five minutes,
trating not only his major work, dently Not Teetotal. That one nificent book, sincere and ture. Here are some:~~
consciousness of their essen- busts and child studica in which but I think a longer time limitugged as some of his much tial rightness. In virile and he excels. Epstein tells how Word Beginnings. Take is advisable for players who are discussed and much reviled colourful prose. Mr Epstein each famous sitter impressed some familiar word-beginning new to this game. My "tip" statues. It will help many at last tells the critics what him when at work, and his com-- for example, IMP-and see how for the tyro is to think up first to understand and appre- HE thinks of them.
monts aro ponotrating and many IMP words you can think an amusing conclusion; then ciate his aspirations, even
ncuto. of in a given time or making adapt the first part of the "mes when they sincerely dislike
Power and viri- Critics and journalists are lity are also the among the major trials of Ep- suggestions alternately. By sage" to it..
their manifestations, and it Book Ballent charac- stein's life and the guardians of IMP words I mean IMPROVE, Rhyme in its various manifes- should kill, and once for all,
toristics of his the Elgin marbles come a good IMPART, IMPLEMENT, and tations can be a great source of the theory that he ever sets of
work, which third. Music, particularly Bee- so on. I duro say you will be entertainment. You don't have out to "epater les bourgeois"
tends to become thoven's Mass in D. and his later to be a Poet Laureate to get a and get his own back on the Week
lot of fun from critics. No man, if he is not
able to think of 50.
· Other in- teresting word- beginnings are CAT, DEN. REP, ASS, etc. i need not mul-
tiply examples.
Word - ending provide an ob- vious variant.
TIC, TABLE. VID, QUE.
CON are a few
which suggest themselves, (Plastic,
it,
the
more
Own
elemental
and more quartets are his joy and inspira- and tion. He feels that some of his abstract. In his larger work might be shown to For Ina complete fool and Mr regards his outstanding merit to Mass in B. Minor or some of eyes he an accompaniment of Bach's stance, let three Epstein is as far removed be a return in sculpture to the Beethoven, and is convinced players each from that category as it is human outlook, without sinking that this combination of musie suggest a word; possible to be spends years back into the flabby sentimen- and sculpture would be a won- then allow ton of his life and thousands of taliam or the merely decorative derful experience. minutes for the pounds, not to mention what man's vitality and capacity for able book are sincerity, colour art which went before. The The keynotes of this remark- production of a is the artist's capital, his enthusiasm is shown by his out- and power. quatrain (verse artistic ability, on so un- put when he turned to painting achievement by a notable man, of four lines) worthy an object.
for relaxation; in one summer and proves once more that it is he did nearly a hundred water- not always advisable for the
introducing al
It is a notable
three. Thus, in After a brief review of colours of Epping Forest; when shoemaker to stick to his last. a recent game, his early years and training, he illustrated Les Fleurs du Mal To read it is to understand the nominated Epstein launches into a de- he became so absorbed that he something of the significance to palat- words were onions, sandbag. tailed description of his did 60 drawings instead of six, himself of the greatest artist of able, fervid, grotesque, buffoon,) yashmak. These found expres- major works, starting with flowers it was the same thing, into the aims and aspirations of and when ho started painting our day, and to gain an insight sion in such poetic gems as the the Strand statues in 1908 his output was terrific, He re- a great and human personality. following:
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DOUS has caused many headache. I once had the temerity to suggest that only. five English words ended in DOUS and received from reader a list of 50 or 60.
Last evening, as I crouched ing which shall be used; eg, one-and
behind a sandbag,
"Oh
the Clerihew, A
"Had a perverted sense of
humus.
"He kept an axolotl
"In a botl."
I found a maiden looking for you might demand quatrains typical Clerihew consists of
her handbag;
similar to those used in Fitz- tour lines of irregular metre; "It has in it," she said Gerald's translation of the superficially, nothing could be
deur, my bunions -
"Rubaiyat."
easier to write. Rhythm and But you can, of course, vary. Telegrams is another good
"The yashmak which I wear
There are also possibilities in euphony, however, are impor- both form and subject-matter in shelter amusement. Let some-
when peeling onions."
the Limerick:
tant. The subject is, as a rule, any way you like. Now is the one suggest a word of, say, nine
"There was
famous a young lady, some
person, about time to think up some new or ten letters. AMUSEMENT
whom-provided he has been verse-form which will rival the itself will do. Then, within an If you are interested in versc- "Whose acquaintances stared dead long enough-you can be Clerihew itself in popularity, agreed time limit-say, five or forms you can add to the in- at
her dolmondeley"-I'll as mendacious as you like: ten minutes-try to compose terest of the game by prescrib- leave it to you to complete this "Alexandre Dumas
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