Enoch Soames by Max Beerbohm

Enoch Soames by Max Beerbohm

Author:Max Beerbohm [Beerbohm, Max]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780585070896
Google: angjngEACAAJ
Amazon: B0082ZCJPY
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00


Failure, if it be a plain, unvarnished, complete failure, and even

though it be a squalid failure, has always a certain dignity. I avoided

Soames because he made me feel rather vulgar. John Lane had

published, by this time, two little books of mine, and they had had a

pleasant little success of esteem. I was a—slight, but definite

—“personality.” Frank Harris had engaged me to kick up my heels in

“The Saturday Review,” Alfred Harmsworth was letting me do likewise

in “The Daily Mail.” I was just what Soames wasn’t. And he shamed my

gloss. Had I known that he really and firmly believed in the greatness of

what he as an artist had achieved, I might not have shunned him. No

man who hasn’t lost his vanity can be held to have altogether failed.

Soames’s dignity was an illusion of mine. One day, in the first week of

June, 1897, that illusion went. But on the evening of that day Soames

went, too.



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