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A review by linneak2002
A Dish of Orts by George MacDonald
5.0
My two favorite essays in this collection are: "The Imagination: Its Functions and Its Culture"; and "The Fantastic Imagination"
Really, the whole thing is full of good things. I don't pretend to understand everything, but that which I did understand was fantastic!
"The best way with music, I imagine, is not to bring the forces of our intellect to bear upon it, but to be still and let it work on that part of us for whose sake it exists.
We spoil countless precious things by intellectual greed. He who will be a man, and will not be a child, must--- he cannot help himself--- become a little man, that is, a dwarf. He will, however, need no consolation, for he is sure to think himself a very large creature indeed."
Really, the whole thing is full of good things. I don't pretend to understand everything, but that which I did understand was fantastic!
"The best way with music, I imagine, is not to bring the forces of our intellect to bear upon it, but to be still and let it work on that part of us for whose sake it exists.
We spoil countless precious things by intellectual greed. He who will be a man, and will not be a child, must--- he cannot help himself--- become a little man, that is, a dwarf. He will, however, need no consolation, for he is sure to think himself a very large creature indeed."