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Marius de Zayas, 291
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291
291 I belong, or at least I believe I belong, to that class that Carlyle de-
scribes as “cause-and-effect speculators”, a class for whom no wonder
remains wonderful, but all things in Heaven and Earth must be com-
puted and “accounted for”. This mental attitude is, indeed, not at all
romantic, but to my belief just as good or just as bad as any other.
At any rate, that is the criterion according to which I form my
opinions, though I must confess that I am, like a certain writer, not
always of my own opinions.
Liberty, Freedom, Individualism, Self-expression, To-live-one’s-own-
life-in-one’s-own-way, &c., &c., are, in my opinion, nothing else but the
tools with which the strong draw out of the timid things that the
latter would not do except under the influence of the toxic of those ideas.
I owe to 291 all that I have given to 291.
29 1 Not an Idea nor an Ideal, but something more potent, a Fact, some-
thing accomplished, being of a nature although perfect, by no means
final or conclusive, but much to the contrary.
2 9 1 Expression of the Present brought out by one man, to keep in con-
stant evidence the spirit of the time, apparently, only in its artistic
production and in its artistic judgment.
2 9 1 A Gallery of EfFects to be taken as points of departure to get at the
Causes and at the Mechanism.
291 Laudable work of him who in matters of art does not cast looks filled
with ecstasies to the Past nor of dreams to the Future but does with
what the Present puts into his hands and makes the World realize its
own worth through its own deeds and through its own thoughts.
29 1 Magnificent school for Autobiography and--Caricature.
Marius DeZayas
73
291 I belong, or at least I believe I belong, to that class that Carlyle de-
scribes as “cause-and-effect speculators”, a class for whom no wonder
remains wonderful, but all things in Heaven and Earth must be com-
puted and “accounted for”. This mental attitude is, indeed, not at all
romantic, but to my belief just as good or just as bad as any other.
At any rate, that is the criterion according to which I form my
opinions, though I must confess that I am, like a certain writer, not
always of my own opinions.
Liberty, Freedom, Individualism, Self-expression, To-live-one’s-own-
life-in-one’s-own-way, &c., &c., are, in my opinion, nothing else but the
tools with which the strong draw out of the timid things that the
latter would not do except under the influence of the toxic of those ideas.
I owe to 291 all that I have given to 291.
29 1 Not an Idea nor an Ideal, but something more potent, a Fact, some-
thing accomplished, being of a nature although perfect, by no means
final or conclusive, but much to the contrary.
2 9 1 Expression of the Present brought out by one man, to keep in con-
stant evidence the spirit of the time, apparently, only in its artistic
production and in its artistic judgment.
2 9 1 A Gallery of EfFects to be taken as points of departure to get at the
Causes and at the Mechanism.
291 Laudable work of him who in matters of art does not cast looks filled
with ecstasies to the Past nor of dreams to the Future but does with
what the Present puts into his hands and makes the World realize its
own worth through its own deeds and through its own thoughts.
29 1 Magnificent school for Autobiography and--Caricature.
Marius DeZayas
73
