W. Somerset Maugham
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And the sublimer harmonies may still be rendered with tolerable effectiveness and with little actual fatigue to the artist.
As we retrograde towards the condition of primeval man, the man with a gong and kettle drum, the blacksmith slowly reasserts his place as the interpreter of the maestro.
But there is a limit beyond which muscle, whether that of the arm or cheek, can no further go.
without too great an expenditure of force in proportion to the volume of noise attainable, and right here the splendid triumphs of modern invention and discovery are made manifest.
Electricity and gunpowder come to the relief of puny muscle.
Simple appliance and orchestras limited by sparse population.
Batteries of artillery thunder exultingly our victory over permeable man.
beaten at his own game.
Signally routed and put to shame.
Pounding his impotent gong and punishing his ridiculous kettle drum in frantic silence, amidst the clash and clang and roar of modern art.
End of chapter thirty seven
Chapter thirty eight of the Fiend's Delight by Ambrose Beerce.
This Lieberbox recording is in the public domain.
Recording by April six zero nine zero
Chota.
The good young man.
Why is he?
Why defaces he the fair page of creation?
And why is he to be continued?
This has never been explained.
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