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(Continued from Page 77
"You are o'd. Father William." Later authors have tried
the young man said "And your hair has become
very white:
And ye you incessantly stand
on your head,
+
Do you think, at your age, it
is right?"
"In my youth" Father William'
replied to his son,
to
maintain the reputation of China' as a source of paradoxical but wise Ideas. England in the nine- century had become a teenth country ugly with mines, factor- Therefore les, and industrialists. English travellers of the nine- described China teenth century as a land of flowers and gardens, I feared it might injure the where all men were scholars, art- * brain;
ists and poets. These travellers But now that I'm perfectly sure also worked up dozens of para-
I have none;
doxical statements such as "Euro- hands with Why, I do it again and pean guests shake
again".
each other: Chinese guests shake That rhyme expresses the pur- hands
themselves." « “In with pose of the instances I have given Europa one pays the Doctor when pays you, and the spirit of the book, one is sick: in China one which is paradox.
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SUCCESSFUL TRICK You know, of course, that this trick was the secret of success for numerous English writers at the end of the The most famous Instance is Wilde. People had been accus- tomed to declare that Art imitates Nature. No, said Wilde, "Nature lin!tates Art": and he wrote A learned dialogue between Ernest and Gilbert to prove it. Then he sald "Learned conversation efther the
the affectation of ignerant or the profession of the meritally unemployed".
Perhaps his best paradox was when he
nineteenth century.
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wished to refuse an invitation to a stranger's house. He wrote the ordinary formal, reply, regretting he found it impossible owing to "a subsequent engagement". I will spare you an account of how Shaw and Chesterton. have built
him when one is well" By using that trick, they attracted intense interest to their accounts of the Far East,
REPEATING STATEMENTS
In suggesting that you may And it convenient to imitate this, I do not mean that you should repeat these statements.. Many of them are no longer true. Of others the truth is nowadays too well-known. when A paradox becomes absurd
and be- there is no truth in it: comes A commonplace when everybody admits the truth of it. Emulation of the spirit, rather than imitation of the letter, 25 what I recommend.
to
When Marco Polo returned Venice from his trip to China, he spent his
first night at hom showing off to his friends the wonderful new clothes he had brought with him.. It was a sort of mannequin parade. After dis- playing the different garments, he distributed them among the essembled neighbours. I hope you look forward to something of this sort. on your return from China. Then he spent the rest of bis ire telling tales of what he had seen. Unfortunately he soon ex-
great literary success on paradox; and earned 1. reputation, like Father William, for incessantly standing on their heads. But, in case you deprecate paradox as a meretricious modern literary de- vice. "I must remind you that Wardsworth is very fond of it, and that the Bible has much of hausted his paradoxes, and fell
Wordsworth declared that
"the child is father of the man".
back on the children alternative of exaggeration. Or at least his friends thought he was exaggerat-
and, contrary to the accepted opinion, asserted that "Our birthing when he described the size.
is but a sleep and a forgetting". The spirit of the Parables is often pointedly paradoxical, and the Beatitudes are the most famous paradoxes ever uttered. Or the Beatitudes It has been said that although they contradict Dur everyday experience. everybody admits their truth, but as they are never acted upon, they retain the eternal freshness of the most perfect paradox.
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I might particularly show how paradox is the time-honour- ed trick in writing about China.
It begins with Marco Polo in
power and wealth, of the palaces, armies, cities and rivers of, magni-
cent, Cathay. They even worried him on his deathbed, for the sake of his immortal soul, to retract his tail stories about China. But he persisted in them. He said he had not told the half of what he saw. Therefore they scoffed at him, and called him "Marco Polo of the Millions."
If he had talked more about the things that were opposite, and less about the things that were bigger, he might have been spared this fate. That is why I have the thirteenth century. He came ventured to recall to your mind, to China from a land where the paradox, as a writers trick,
CROSSWORD PUZZLE
10
17
18
10
330
24
NOTE-Figures in' parentheses indicate number of letters in the
words required.
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ACROS$ 1-Leaves as a possible alter-
nati e to a double (5). 6.This animal becomes a com- plete wreck when behended
(5). 9Certainly not descriptive of that sylph-like figure (7). 10-A man of parts (5). 11. People are frequently bucked
at this entertainment (5). 12-A saucy fish, this (7). 14. The little church behind the
hill gives us light. (5). 15-It's pagan to warm ber up!
(3). 16.-Sufficiently liberal as, to be- come regal for a change (5). 17. Suitable material for wear
north of itself (5). 10.-These eggs are partly mov-
able (3). 21.-There's plenty of dash in
this sort of antelope (5). 23-Clearly, a well-behaved sort
of runner (7). 24-It's beastly sort of fare (5). 25.-Nothing on the tree, we sup-
pose (5)...
a
26. Superlatively blatant (7): 27.-Lowering. in a sense (5). 28.-Good.. to look upon, maybe, though we don't like to be called it (5).
DOWN
1-8 gills (5). 2-Putting your finger into things results in it being broken finally! · (11).
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3.-Sally, maybe, but no excur
sion (5). 4.-Does this necessarily give the batsman a black outlook? (5).
5.A couple of points in Central
America (5).
6-A gem of a girl (5). 7-Looking after the disposal of
the dead would seem to be a biggish job (11) 8.-Running koot (5), 13-He gets a hall to give us a
pull (5).
17-A Caledonian gives us an
opera (5), 16.-Playing
21
the
washer-
for
·woman? (5), 19-Hatred (5). 20-Equipped for war in a dream
(5). 21.-Islands of the "blues,” we
hear (5). 22-Resided (5),
The following is the solution of yesterday's puzzle:-
Across.-1. Pop-shop: 5, Batch: 8. Abuse; 0, Tapster; 12, Get-up;
18. 14. Hate: 15, Malignancy; Beneficial; 21. Beat; 22. Boyne; 23, Premier; 27, Skull; 28. Laugh; 29, Yule-log.
Down-1, Pt 2, Pip: 3, Hot; 4 Parlance: 5, Begin: 6. Titan: 7 Happy: 10, Awake; 11. Suede; 13. Misapply: 16. Album; 17, Chase; 13. Bahel; 19, Noyuu; 20, Flesh; 24. Eel; 25, 11; 26. Rig.
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citles were so suspicious of one another
and
Alice's Adventures in Wonder-
"the moral of that."
" would "trust nothing but a gold
standard: from a land where the Duchess would say, is
his
only available fuel was wood. On
announced return, he
two startling paradoxes! that the Chinese fed their fires with stone; and for money used
paper. 80 that the use of coal and the origin of paper money, began for Europe in a paradox about China.
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