Thursday, August 09, 2012
The Picturesque
Letter from Thomas Carlyle to Edward FitzGerald (August 16, 1843):
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As to the Picturesque, I have been dreadfully annoyed with it ever since I left home. Not properly with it, for I rather like big rocks, high mountains, swift rivers, etc., as I suppose all mortal men from the beginning of the world have done; but the eternal cackle and babble about it, from all persons, even sensible persons, in these times, is truly distressing to me. It is like a human being uttering to me, "Cuck-oo! Cuck-oo!" with a tongue that might speak real words. Far more shocking than you think!
