Nursed on greater masters, I thought less of him than he deserved; but the Carmen music was--in places--exquisite of its kind, and could enchant a man like me, romantic enough to have come to the end of romance before I began to create in art for myself.
When I say that _I_ did and felt these things, I mean, of course, that the predecessor whose name I bear did and felt them.

The I of to-day is (?
am) cool towards Carmen; and Carmen, I regret to say, does not take the slightest interest in him (?
me).

And now enough of this juggling with past and present Shaws.

The grammatical complications of being a first person and several extinct third persons at the same moment are so frightful that I must return to the ordinary misusage, and ask the reader to make the necessary corrections in his or her own mind.
This book is not wholly a compound of intuition and ignorance.

Take for example the profession of my hero, an Irish-American electrical engineer.