Friday, August 17, 2007

But for women this ideal of comprehensive capacity (or common-sense)



must long ago have been washed away
But for women this ideal of comprehensive capacity (or common-sense)
must long ago have been washed away. It must have melted
in the frightful furnaces of ambition and eager technicality.
A man must be partly a one-idead man, because he is a
one-weaponed man--and he is flung naked into the fight.
The world"s demand comes to him direct; to his wife indirectly.
In short, he must (as the books on Success say) give 'his best';
and what a small part of a man 'his best' is! His second
and third best are often much better. If he is the first violin
he must fiddle for life; he must not remember that he is
a fine fourth bagpipe, a fair fifteenth billiard-cue, a foil,
a fountain pen, a hand at whist, a gun, and an image of God.


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