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Book Excerpt: aloneone can study as one can study the mechanism of the body not theprinciple of life itself. What is done mechanically after the heat ofthe blood has cooled and the divine accidents have ceased to happen isprecisely all that was consciously skilful in the performance of an art.To see all this mechanism left bare as the form of the skeleton is leftbare when age thins the flesh upon it is to learn more easily all thatis to be learnt of structure the art which not art but nature hashitherto concealed with its merciful covering.The art of Sarah Bernhardt has always been a very conscious art but itspoke to us once with so electrical a shock as if nerve touchednerve or the mere contour subtil of the voice were laid tinglingly onone’s spinal cord that it was difficult to analyse it coldly. She wasPhèdre or Marguerite Gautier she was Adrienne Lecouvreur Fédora LaTosca the actual woman and she was also that other actual woman SarahBernhardt. Two magics met and united in theRead More.
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