Essays in the Art of Writing

ISBN-13: 9781512162486 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 56 str.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Opis

There is nothing more disenchanting to man than to be shown the springs and mechanism of any art. All our arts and occupations lie wholly on the surface; it is on the surface that we perceive their beauty, fitness, and significance; and to pry below is to be appalled by their emptiness and shocked by the coarseness of the strings and pulleys.