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Updated: May 1, 2025
He was neither fool nor madman, nor man to be adored: his last temptation caught him in the season before he had subdued his blood, and amid the multitudinously simple of this world, stamped him a tragic comedian: that is, a grand pretender, a self-deceiver, one of the lividly ludicrous, whom we cannot laugh at, but must contemplate, to distinguish where their character strikes the note of discord with life; for otherwise, in the reflection of their history, life will seem a thing demoniacally inclined by fits to antic and dive into gulfs.
"Dolores, Sergeant Burker met with an accident this morning on parade. He is dead. Let us never refer to him again." She fainted. I spent that night also in meditation, questioning myself and examining my soul with every honest endeavour to be not a self-deceiver. I came to the conclusion that I had acted rightly and in the only way in which a gentleman could act.
"I did not! You said you had been. You laughed about it. You made me think it was something that had happened a long time ago. I thought of course you'd been divorced " "But I told you " "You told me after! And then you made me think you could easily get one that it was only a matter of form and " "Cora," he interrupted, "you're the most elaborate little self-deceiver I ever knew.
The histrionic self-deceiver may be a persuasive deceiver of another, who is again, though not ignorant of his character, tempted to swallow the nostrums which have made so gallant a man of him: his imperceptible sensible playing of the part, on a substratum of sincereness, induces fascinatingly to the like performance on our side, that we may be armed as he is for enjoying the coveted reality through the partial simulation of possessing it.
"Alexander!" said I. "Do you even think of him? Not you! Look yourself in the face like a brave man, and you'll find you're but a self-deceiver. The wife, the friend, the child, they're all equally forgot, and you sunk in a mere log of selfishness."
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