THIS IS MY 100TH POST. Goodness, I talk too much. Instead of saying more or having a kitsch "Top 100" list, I'm going to make this post primarily quotes. Unbelievably, I have not yet had a "Quotes" Hot-Topic - this is the first of what will be many more to come.
All from Dorothy Sayers' book The Mind of the Maker.
"Our minds are not infinite; and as the volume of the world's knowledge increases, we tend more and more to confine ourselves, each to his special sphere of interest and to the specialized metaphor belonging to it. The analytical bias of the last three centuries has immensely encouraged this tendency and it is now very difficult for the artist to speak the language of the theologian or the scientist the language of either. But the attempt must be made; and there are signs everywhere that the human mind is once more beginning to move towards a synthesis of experience."
"If a ruthless education in Shakespeare's language could produce a nation of Shakespeares, every Englishman would at this moment be a dramatic genius. Actually, all that such an education can posibly do is to improve a little the general apparatus of linguistic machinery and so make the way smooth for the appearance of the still rare, still incalcuable genius. Genius is, in fact not subject to the 'law' of progress and it is beginning to be extremely doubtful whether progress is a 'law' at all."
"In the metaphors used by the Christian creeds about the mind of the maker, the creative artist can recognize a true relation to his own experience; and it is his business to record the fact of that recognition in any further metaphor that the reader may understand and apply."
If you're a created being not inspired thoe words, I a) don't know what else to tell you and b) recommend you read the entire book - The Mind of the Maker, which is also this week's MOTW.
