Martin Eden Ch 27 p258

Paul Stought

Jul 2

groping and soul-reaching left in.	groeping and soel-ryching left in.
He had discovered, in the course of his reading, two schools of fiction. One treated of man as a god, ignoring his earthly origin; the other treated of man as a clod, ignoring his heaven-sent dreams and divine possibilities. Both the god and the clod schools erred, in Martin's estimation, and erred through too great singleness of sight and purpose. There was a compromise that approximated the truth, though it flattered not the school of god, while it challenged the brute-savageness of the school of clod. It was his story, "Adventure," which had dragged with Ruth, that Martin believed had achieved his ideal of the true in fiction; and it was in an essay, "God and Clod," that he had expressed his views on the whole general subject.	Hy had diskuvurd, in dhu kaurs uv hiz ryding, too skoolz uv fikshun. Wun trytud uv man az u god, ignauring hiz urthly aurujun; dhy udhur trytud uv man az u klod, ignauring hiz hevun-sent drymz and divien posubilutyz. Boeth dhu god and dhu klod skoolz erd, in Mortun'z estumaeshun, and erd throo too graet singulnus uv siet and purpus. Dher wuz u komprumiez dhat uproksumaetud dhu trooth, dhoe it flaturd not dhu skool uv god, whiel it chalunjd dhu broot-savijnus uv dhu skool uv klod. It wuz hiz staury, "Udvenchur," which had dragd with Rooth, dhat Mortun bilyvd had uchyvd hiz iedyl uv dhu troo in fikshun; and it wuz in an esae, "God and Klod," dhat hy had ekspresd hiz vuez on dhu hoel jenurul subjikt.
But "Adventure," and all that he deemed his best work, still went begging among the editors. His early work counted for nothing in his eyes except for the money it brought, and his horror stories, two of which he had sold, he did not consider high work nor his best work. To him they were frankly imaginative and fantastic, though invested with all the glamour of the real, wherein lay their power. This investiture of the grotesque and impossible with reality, he looked upon as a trick—a skilful trick at best. Great literature could not reside in such a field. Their artistry was high, but he denied the worthwhileness of artistry when divorced from humanness. The trick had been to fling over the face of his artistry a mask of humanness, and this he had done in the half-dozen or so stories of the horror brand he had written before he emerged upon the high peaks of "Adventure," "Joy," "The Pot," and "The Wine of Life."	But "Udvenchur," and aul dhat hy deemd hiz best wurk, stil went beging umung dhy eduturz. Hiz urly wurk kountud faur nuthing in hiz iez eksept faur dhu muny it braut, and hiz haurur stauryz, too uv whch hy had soeld, hy did not kunsidur hie wurk naur hiz best wurk. Too him dhae wur frangkly imajunutiv and fantastik, dhoe investud with aul dhu glamur uv dhu ryl, wherin lae dher pour. Dhis investuchur uv dhu groetesk and imposubul with ryaluty, hy lwkd upon az u trik—u skilful trik at best. Graet lituruchur kwd not rizied in such u fyld. Dher ortustry wuz hie, but hy dinied dhu wurthwhielnus uv ortustry when divaursd frum huemunnus. Dhu trik had bin too fling oevur dhu faes uv hiz ortustry u mask uv huemunnus, and dhis hy had dun in dhu haf-duzun aur soe stauryz uv dhu haurur brand hy had ritun bifaur hy imurjd upon dhu hie pyks uv 'Unvenchur," "Joi," "Dhu Pot," and "Dhu wien uv Lief."
The three dollars he received for the triolets he used to eke out a precarious existence against the arrival of the White Mouse check. He cashed the first check with the suspicious Portuguese grocer, paying a dollar on account and dividing	Dhu thry dolurz hy risyvd faur dhu triuluts hy uezd too yk out u prikaryus egzistuns ugenst dhy urievul uv dhu Whiet Mous chek. Hy kashd dhu furst chek with dhu suspishus Paurchugyz groesur, pa.ing u dolur on ukount and divieding
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