Мартин Иден

Chapter 23

           Heneverlostamoment. Onthelooking-glasswerelistsofdefinitionsandpronunciations; whenshaving,ordressing,orcombinghishair,heconnedtheselistsover. Similarlistswereonthewallovertheoil-stove,andtheyweresimilarlyconnedwhilehewasengagedincookingorinwashingthedishes. Newlistscontinuallydisplacedtheoldones. Everystrangeorpartlyfamiliarwordencounteredinhisreadingwasimmediatelyjotteddown,andlater,whenasufficientnumberhadbeenaccumulated,weretypedandpinnedtothewallorlooking-glass. Heevencarriedtheminhispockets,andreviewedthematoddmomentsonthestreet,orwhilewaitinginbutchershoporgrocerytobeserved. 

           Hewentfartherinthematter. Readingtheworksofmenwhohadarrived,henotedeveryresultachievedbythem,andworkedoutthetricksbywhichtheyhadbeenachievedthetricksofnarrative,ofexposition,ofstyle,thepointsofview,thecontrasts,theepigrams; andofallthesehemadelistsforstudy. Hedidnotape. Hesoughtprinciples. Hedrewuplistsofeffectiveandfetchingmannerisms,tilloutofmanysuch,culledfrommanywriters,hewasabletoinducethegeneralprincipleofmannerism,and,thusequipped,tocastaboutfornewandoriginalonesofhisown,andtoweighandmeasureandappraisethemproperly. Insimilarmannerhecollectedlistsofstrongphrases,thephrasesoflivinglanguage,phrasesthatbitlikeacidandscorchedlikeflame,orthatglowedandweremellowandlusciousinthemidstoftheariddesertofcommonspeech. 

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