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ah! books
There are good books, indifferent books, and bad books. Amongst the good books some are honest, inspiring, moving, prophetic, and improving. But in my language there is another category: there are Ah! Books. This (Mr God This Is Anna) is one of them. Ah! Books are those which induce a fundamental change in the reader's consciousness. They widen his sensibility in such a way that he is able to look upon familiar things as though he is seeing and understanding them for the first time. Ah! Books are galvanic. They touch the nerve-centre of the whole being so that the reader receives an almost palpable physical shock. A tremor of excited perception ripples through the person. ...
universal qualities of a melody
We listen to music on two levels - the mood or emotional level and the musical or technical level. ...
the two sides of a writer
The author of genius does keep till his last breath the spontaneity, the ready sensitivity, of a child, the "innocence of eye", that means so much to the painter, the ability to respond freshly and quickly to new scenes, and to old scenes as though they were new; to see traits and characteristics as though each were new-minted from the hand of God instead of sorting them quickly into dusty categories and pigeonholing them without wonder or surprise; to feel situations so immediately and keenly that the word "trite" has hardly any meaning for him; and always to see "the correspondences between things" of which Aristotle spoke two thousand years ago. This freshness of response is vital to the author's talent. ...
ah! books in my collection
In the Introduction to Mr God, This is Anna the editor introduces the notion of an Ah! Book, i.e. a book that stimulates and inspires you and forever changes your perspective on certain important issues. An Ah! Book points the way and provides the necessary motivation and tools for your own journey of discovery. They are books you dip into again and again for new ideas and fresh inspiration. ...
two living legends
Nowhere are the two men more different than in what they do when a performance is over. By metabolism, Mitchell is a purebred artist, acutely tuned to his senses and his body. He lives close to the elemental forces: food, fatigue, sleep, germs, weather, people, the discomforts of travel. He forgets names, places, dates, papers, possessions and other mundane details."The spirits will take care of it, " he says. "If it's meant to happen it will." ...
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