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Posted by Amontillado
Apr 5, 2023 at 09:23 PM
Dear 22111,
You are free to ignore my advice, as I am to decline yours. Strewn here to either trample or appreciate as the spirit moves you are a couple of suggestions.
Open your mind to intellectual collaboration. Join the conversation. It’s more uplifting than a monologue of manufactured authority. We can all learn from each other.
Read O’Henry’s Brickdust Row. Pay heed to the quick transition from Blinker’s first impression of Coney Island, “the mob, the multitude, the proletariat shrieking, struggling, hurrying, panting, hurling itself in incontinent frenzy, with unabashed abandon, into the ridiculous sham palaces of trumpery and tinsel pleasures.”
Three paragraphs later, he no longer saw a rabble, but his brothers seeking the ideal.
The ending says much about pitfalls in human nature.
Posted by tightbeam
Apr 5, 2023 at 09:42 PM
A mark of a good writer is that others want to read what he writes. 22111 vs. Amontillado. Hmm…
Isn’t it past time for Chris Murtland to suspend (temporarily at first) 22111 for his behavior? What a shame if Chris allows this forum to descend into acrimony like so many other forums, just to accommodate one member whose posts few of us read or welcome.
Amontillado wrote:
Dear 22111,
>
>You are free to ignore my advice, as I am to decline yours. Strewn here
>to either trample or appreciate as the spirit moves you are a couple of
>suggestions.
>
>Open your mind to intellectual collaboration. Join the conversation.
>It’s more uplifting than a monologue of manufactured authority. We can
>all learn from each other.
>
>Read O’Henry’s Brickdust Row. Pay heed to the quick transition from
>Blinker’s first impression of Coney Island, “the mob, the multitude, the
>proletariat shrieking, struggling, hurrying, panting, hurling itself in
>incontinent frenzy, with unabashed abandon, into the ridiculous sham
>palaces of trumpery and tinsel pleasures.”
>
>Three paragraphs later, he no longer saw a rabble, but his brothers
>seeking the ideal.
>
>The ending says much about pitfalls in human nature.
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Apr 6, 2023 at 07:02 AM
Thank you, I just ordered The Selected Stories of O. Henry!
Amontillado wrote:
>Read O’Henry’s Brickdust Row
Posted by Amontillado
Apr 6, 2023 at 12:20 PM
Thank you both for your kind words.
@Alexander Deliyannis - Don’t thank me, thank my Dad. He was an O’Henry scholar.
From the time I was in elementary school, there was a small ceramic plaque in the hall outside my room bearing O’Henry’s profile and the quotation from Brickdust Row, “He no longer saw a rabble, but his brothers seeking the ideal.”
I cherish that quote. It reminds me of the power of perspective and it humbles me. By luck of the draw I was blessed with parents who drove me to find opportunities.
Posted by satis
Apr 6, 2023 at 03:15 PM
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
If anyone justs want to read the story:
https://americanliterature.com/author/o-henry/short-story/brickdust-row
Thank you, I just ordered The Selected Stories of O. Henry!
>
>Amontillado wrote:
>>Read O’Henry’s Brickdust Row