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"There," said Ottmar, "you were going in exact opposition to Lothair's principle that true genius never goes under."
Ottmar and Vincenz agreed in this, and added that Theodore had committed a breach of Serapiontic rule by speaking so fully on a subject to some extent strange to the other brethren, in this manner giving himself up to impulses of the moment, and damming up the flow of other communications.
Behold in me, oh, Ottmar, your champion in complete armour, and cudgel soundly in all the novels you may be thinking of writing. I praise you for the cudgelling's sake."
You see that it was a matter of course that just when Ottmar had made the drawing-room door fly open I had necessarily to do the like, and appear to you myself." "Not as an uncanny guest, though," said Theodore, "but as a true and faithful Serapion Brother, who, although he frightened me not a little, as I must perforce admit, is a thousand times welcome to me all the same."
But I think he is wanting in that brilliant lire of profound humour which coruscates in the writings of Sterne and Swift." "I am just in your position, Ottmar," said Vincenz. "'Guy Mannering' is the only work of Scott's which I have read.
He is speaking of me," he continued, laughing, "and he doesn't know that, a few weeks ago, when I insisted on restraining that tendency of mine, which I see the absurdity of, and falling into a conversation in the ordinary style of other people, I had to pay for it by complete annihilation. I prefer telling you all about this myself to letting Ottmar do it, and add witty comments of his own.
Just at present, there is young Mr. Moreover, Mr. Gloria has passed his second examination at the Supreme Court with flying colours. "So perhaps he and Albertine may make a match of it, should he get a fairly good appointment. There's no telling. Let us see what happens." "You have certainly written a wonderfully crack-brained thing in that," Ottmar said, when Lothair had finished.
But if this story is known to you as being in print, please to stop me and prevent my going on with it, because there's nothing more wearisome than to tell people things which they have known for ever so long." "I foresee," said Ottmar, "that you are going to give us something unusually awful and terrible.
Who shall cast the first stone at one who has grown defenceless because his strength has ebbed away with the heart's-blood flowing from wounds inflicted by his own self-deception? My end is gained now. Even you Lothair, Ottmar, Vincenz, severe inflexible critics and judges, have quite altered your opinions now that you have seen my poet face to face. His face speaks truth.
Before the latter could begin to speak, Ottmar said: "It is impossible, in this connection, that I should forget the extraordinary, nay, almost preposterously absurd, meeting of two men who were at all events as concerned their opinions upon Art and their views about it absolutely heterogeneous in their natures.
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