DILIGENCE IS TO MAGIC ASPROGRESS IS TO FLIGHT
With an elephant to ride upon—“with rings on her fingers and bells on her toes,”she shall outdistance calamity anywhere she goes.Speed is not in her mind inseparable from carpets. Locomotion arosein the shape of an elephant, she clambered up and choseto travel laboriously. So far as magic carpets are concerned, she knowsthat although the semblance of speed may attach to scarecrowsof æsthetic procedure, the substance of it is embodied in such of thosetough-grained animals as have outstripped man’s whim to supposethem ephemera, and have earned that fruit of their ability to endure blows,which dubs them prosaic necessities—not curios.
With an elephant to ride upon—“with rings on her fingers and bells on her toes,”she shall outdistance calamity anywhere she goes.Speed is not in her mind inseparable from carpets. Locomotion arosein the shape of an elephant, she clambered up and choseto travel laboriously. So far as magic carpets are concerned, she knowsthat although the semblance of speed may attach to scarecrowsof æsthetic procedure, the substance of it is embodied in such of thosetough-grained animals as have outstripped man’s whim to supposethem ephemera, and have earned that fruit of their ability to endure blows,which dubs them prosaic necessities—not curios.
With an elephant to ride upon—“with rings on her fingers and bells on her toes,”she shall outdistance calamity anywhere she goes.Speed is not in her mind inseparable from carpets. Locomotion arosein the shape of an elephant, she clambered up and choseto travel laboriously. So far as magic carpets are concerned, she knowsthat although the semblance of speed may attach to scarecrowsof æsthetic procedure, the substance of it is embodied in such of thosetough-grained animals as have outstripped man’s whim to supposethem ephemera, and have earned that fruit of their ability to endure blows,which dubs them prosaic necessities—not curios.