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With One’s Own Eyes: Sherwood Anderson’s Realities Excerpt There is something you can do. Even if you are not actually practicing writers, you can employ something of the writer’s technique. When you are puzzled about your own life, as we all are most of the time, you can throw imagined figures of others against a background very like your own, put these imagined figures through situations in which you have been involved. It is a very comforting thing to do, a great relief at times, this occasionally losing sense of self, living in these imagined figures. This thing we call self, as I said here in a talk the other evening, is often very like a disease. It seems to sap you, take something from you, destroy your relationship with others, while even occasionally losing sense of self seems to give you an understanding that you didn’t have before you became absorbed. May it not be that all the people we know are only what we imagine them to be? If, for example, you are as I was at the time of which I am now speaking, a business man, on the whole spending my time seeking my own advantage, you lose interest, while, as opposed to this, as you lose yourself in others, life immediately becomes more interesting. A new world seems to open out before you. Your imagination becomes constantly more and more alive. Reviews "It would be difficult to find two better or more representative stories by Sherwood Anderson than ‘Adventure’ and ‘Death in
the Woods.’ Included here, along with one of Anderson’s more provocative critical essays
and an excellent introduction by Professor
Welford D. Taylor, they make this small "During the early part of the twentieth century Sherwood Anderson was one of America’s most famous and beloved authors. This book reexamines the startling modernist artistry of Anderson’s stories and their daring combination of imagination and realism."
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