A garden rosary . a garden rosary 45 July 17 omewhere there is a traditionthat the word Mesopotamiayrepeated and repeated and re-peated, will hypnotize both speaker andlistener. I remember how this notion en-snared my childish fancy, and once, whenI felt very brave, I whispered it over andover, under my breath, — Mesopota-mia— Mesopotamia nodding, nodding,as I said it. I cannot be sure that the statesuperinduced by this performance was ofhypnotic nature. But it might well havebeen. Without doubt there are certainwords which work upon our imaginations,merely because of their arrangement of syl-
A garden rosary . a garden rosary 45 July 17 omewhere there is a traditionthat the word Mesopotamiayrepeated and repeated and re-peated, will hypnotize both speaker andlistener. I remember how this notion en-snared my childish fancy, and once, whenI felt very brave, I whispered it over andover, under my breath, — Mesopota-mia— Mesopotamia nodding, nodding,as I said it. I cannot be sure that the statesuperinduced by this performance was ofhypnotic nature. But it might well havebeen. Without doubt there are certainwords which work upon our imaginations,merely because of their arrangement of syl-lables, not at all for their intrinsic mean-ing: just as there are certain colors whichare symbolic without any chart to interpretthem. There is a peculiar beauty and sig-nificance to line, irrespective of the thingwhich it represents. Even to the laymanvertical lines express stability; horizontallines, repose. Curved lines are the lines 46 A GARDEN ROSARY of motion, and the curves differ withinthemselves: som
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