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The Turmoil

CHAPTER XVI
10/13

Then you come away and feel like a boy who has fallen in love with his Sunday-school teacher.

You'll be whipped for it--and ought to be.
There are women who make you think of Diana, crowned with the moon.
But they do not have the "Greek profile." I do not believe Helen of Troy had a "Greek profile"; they would not have fought about her if her nose had been quite that long.

The Greek nose is not the adorable nose.

The adorable nose is about an eighth of an inch shorter.
Much of the music of Wagner, it appears, is not suitable to the piano.

Wagner was a composer who could interpret into music such things as the primitive impulses of humanity--he could have made a machine-shop into music.


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