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Show TIIK TUAtJKDV OK IIKING DUIiIj. In tho April Woman's Homo Companion Com-panion Arnold Dennott describes the tragedy of being dull. "Tho man lacking Imagination Is tho utterly matter-of-fact man. He Is necessarily tho man who never has and cannot have, any point of view oxcopt his own. Ho Is tho Words-worthlan Words-worthlan man to whom a prlmroso by tho river's brim was strictly a yellow prlmroso Instead of bolng a mlraclo. Ho Is Imprisoned In what to him Is tho actual, and he Is always tho oxact centor of tho prison, which la of thickest Iron. HIb tragedy Is that ho does not suspect, and Is Incapable In-capable of suspecting, that ho Is In a prison at all, and that the prison walls and door and roof entirely pro-vent pro-vent him from really 'getting at' any other human beLng whatsoever. He Is always In his own place, and never nev-er In tho other person's place. This Is tho doop meaning of dullness, and this Is tho dull man's doom." |