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...German reading, when I tried calmly to enjoy the beauties of Goethe, I found myself perfectly competent to give an elaborate and exact account of the natural history of the gopher, Apollinaris Water, and Freshmen. But this isn't all. If this chaos of uncertainty, this boiling, seething torrent of confusion, this benumbing consciousness of the unreality of the existent, took possession of my mind only while actually at the lectures and readings, there would be some balm in Gilead to soothe and heal my burning, frenzied, demon-haunted intellect. But there is a fate upon me. A brooding curse...
...gazed at me a moment, as I stood before him like a timid deer, and then, in a mighty torrent of emotion, flung himself at my feet, exclaiming. "You air a cherubim, an' I ain't no pirick, but an' uncultered son o' the soil. Thet's wut I am, honest Injun! Will yer smile on me? Will yer lemme adore...
...journeyings begrimed, and torrent-leaps...
...well expressed in tones as here. But in interpreting it the chief defect of Thomas's orchestra was revealed. This glowing, passionate composition loses much in effectiveness by being played in such a measured and nicely calculated concert style. The whole opera is like one wild tumultuous torrent of ungovernable passion, and must be played a l' abandon, and with an unconscious enthusiasm and fervor, as if the musicians were blindly carried along by this torrent of intoxicating sounds. Perhaps this feeling can only be awakened fully when the scenery on the stage helps to suggest the situation...
...strongest point appears when I try to give him a good sound scolding. He listens for a minute while my indignation is rising and my words are growing louder; but before my wrath boils over, he floods me with such a torrent of rich brogue, which I cannot understand, that I am left completely at his mercy. The faster he talks the lower my spirits sink. Being possessed of the advantage of being able to understand what I say, while my replies to him are made without the remotest idea of what I am answering...