Comments on: on Work and Action http://www.cosmopoetica.com/cpb/library/2007/07/30/on-work-and-action/ Quotes, snippets, things that caught my eye... Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:55:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Gardner http://www.cosmopoetica.com/cpb/library/2007/07/30/on-work-and-action/#comment-19254 Gardner Mon, 30 Jul 2007 19:03:56 +0000 http://www.cosmopoetica.com/cpb/library/2007/07/30/on-work-and-action/#comment-19254 This is probably correct. Corollary: G. M. Hopkins said that if one wants to believe more strongly, "give alms." There's a GREAT bit at the end of "Polysyllabic Spree" (Nick Hornby) where he quotes a letter by Chekhov admonishing a younger writer in much these same terms. I sense an impressive unanimity of opinion, rare for thinkers. This is probably correct.

Corollary: G. M. Hopkins said that if one wants to believe more strongly, “give alms.”

There’s a GREAT bit at the end of “Polysyllabic Spree” (Nick Hornby) where he quotes a letter by Chekhov admonishing a younger writer in much these same terms.

I sense an impressive unanimity of opinion, rare for thinkers.

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