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Title: Remarkable Descriptions
Review: You simply have to love language to enjoy this book. Hawthorne could describe a character picking his/her nose and transform it into something beautiful and illuminating of the whole human condition. I especially like this: "Life is made up of marble and mud. And, without all the deeper trust in a comprehensive sympathy above us, we might hence be led to suspect the insult of a sneer, as well as an immitigable frown, on the iron countenance of fate. What is called poetic insight is the gift of discerning, in this sphere of strangely mingled elements, the beauty and the majesty which are compelled to assume a garb so sordid." It might be good for today's students to cut away from their tweeting and texting to contemplate, and attempt to translate, that sentence into a modern statement.
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