. The book of months . set pen to paper at all unless one thought66 ^ MARCH that one had an idea of some kind, it is mildlypleasant, even now when the first excitement isover, to see in cold blood what the idea was, toemphasize what appears to be its decent points,to suppress its bad ones. After that the secondmanuscript goes to the type-writer, and peaceagain reigns. Now during the first writing of the manu-script a curious thing has more than once hap-pened to me—that is to say, a character, or asituation, or even the story itself takes the bitbetween its teeth and, as far as I know,
. The book of months . set pen to paper at all unless one thought66 ^ MARCH that one had an idea of some kind, it is mildlypleasant, even now when the first excitement isover, to see in cold blood what the idea was, toemphasize what appears to be its decent points,to suppress its bad ones. After that the secondmanuscript goes to the type-writer, and peaceagain reigns. Now during the first writing of the manu-script a curious thing has more than once hap-pened to me—that is to say, a character, or asituation, or even the story itself takes the bitbetween its teeth and, as far as I know, had meant to do and to say somethingdifferent, but whether it is that even in the mean-est-Imagined characters one, so to speak, raisesthe devil, and cannot be held responsible for liissubsequent actions, or whatever the cause, thisphenomenon occurs. In the terms of our firstsimile, this is the cuckoos egg in the hedge-sparrows nest. One sits on the thing—writesit, that is—^but it is not going to be a hedge-67.
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