A Defence of Nonsense And Other Essays
A Defence of Nonsense And Other Essays
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The artistic justification, then, of farce and pantomime must consist in the emotions of life which correspond to them. And these emotions are to an incredible extent crushed out by the modern insistence on the painful side of life only. Pain, it is [41] A Defence of Farce said, is the dominant element of life ; but this is true only in a very special sense. If pain were for one single instant literally the dominant element in life, every man would be found hanging dead from his own bed-post by... the morning. Pain, as the black and catastrophic thing, attracts the youthful artist, just as the schoolboy draws devils and skeletons and men hanging. But joy is a far more elusive and elvish matter, since it is our reason for existing, and a very feminine reason ; it mingles with every breath we draw and every cup of tea we drink. The literature of joy is infinitely more difficult, more rare and more triumphant than the black and white litera- ture of pain. And of all the varied forms of the literature of joy, the form most truly worthy of moral reverence and artistic am- bition is the form called *' farce" — or its wilder shape in pantomime.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The artistic justification, then, of farce and pantomime must consist in the emotions of life which correspond to them. And these emotions are to an incredible extent crushed out by the modern insistence on the painful side of life only. Pain, it is [41] A Defence of Farce said, is the dominant element of life ; but this is true only in a very special sense. If pain were for one single instant literally the dominant element in life, every man would be found hanging dead from his own bed-post by... the morning. Pain, as the black and catastrophic thing, attracts the youthful artist, just as the schoolboy draws devils and skeletons and men hanging. But joy is a far more elusive and elvish matter, since it is our reason for existing, and a very feminine reason ; it mingles with every breath we draw and every cup of tea we drink. The literature of joy is infinitely more difficult, more rare and more triumphant than the black and white litera- ture of pain. And of all the varied forms of the literature of joy, the form most truly worthy of moral reverence and artistic am- bition is the form called *' farce" — or its wilder shape in pantomime.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936 to read onlineMoreLess
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