H. Bedford-Jones

Name: Bigfoot Joe, and Others: Figments of Fancy
Author: H. Bedford-Jones

Bigfoot Joe, and Others: Figments of Fancy (1920)

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“Bigfoot Joe, and Others: Figments of Fancy”, published in 1920, is a work by H. Bedford-Jones. It explores elements such as halfbreed, magazine and lumberjack.

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H. Bedford-Jones, Bigfoot Joe, and Others: Figments of Fancy (1920)

“ The Philosopher groped after his soul, the Painter strove to express his soul, and the Poet tried to clothe his soul in words. The half-breed, caring nothing about soul, struck fire from the spirit of the Great Author, who knew what a plain thing the soul really is; this, in fact, was why he was a Great Author.
And so, when he had returned again to his own country, the Great Author neglected to write about the famous Artists. Instead, he penned a wonderful tale about a halfbreed Indian, and the world cried out in rapture. ”

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H. Bedford-Jones, Bigfoot Joe, and Others: Figments of Fancy (1920)

“ A new fiction magazine makes its curtsey by deploring these facts and apologetically devotes its pages only to the highest forms of writing. Stuff! Why cringe to the Elder Brethren? An editor interprets the wishes of the public; he is not to suit his own whims, but to make money for the owners.
The public knows what it wants, and will pay to get it. The mystics may become the oracles of new cults, may set about remaking their own petty worlds after their hearts' desires; but they cannot make a living by the quill. Even the music critics have come from their misty pinnacles. ”

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H. Bedford-Jones, Bigfoot Joe, and Others: Figments of Fancy (1920)

“ Ethics were individual things entirely, much beneath the consideration of free artists. And what was an editor compared with one who wrote literature? Less than the dust!
However, the suggestion that it was the editor who wrote the checks, proved to be sobering—amazingly sobering.
The days wore breezily on, with much writing and earnest endeavor, and much discussion of why no man in the writing game today deserved the place he held; that is, no man at the top. One or two had some facility; a little plot, perhaps, a gift of words, a lilt to paragraphs—but this was "all they had." ”

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H. Bedford-Jones, Bigfoot Joe, and Others: Figments of Fancy (1920)

“ When Snorri quilled that great chronicle, the Heimskringla, his words fitted like a mosaic; he left us a perfect example of the clear word.
A work of literature creates a character, then evolves it through the stress of exterior circumstances. The magazine story takes its character ready-made, evolving a plot through the stress of that character upon exterior circumstances. ”

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H. Bedford-Jones, Bigfoot Joe, and Others: Figments of Fancy (1920)

“ But the three Artists bitterly termed him an ignorant fakir.
From the "Sonnet" of Felix Arvers
Within my soul there lies a secret, thieved
Eternally from Love, that knows no sleep.
All innocent it she whose name lies deep
Enshrined upon my heart, nor has she grieved
With love's kind sorrow; naught have I achieved
Though alway at her side. Thus shall I keep
My secret, while I live. How might I reap
Rewards unsought, when none can be received? ”

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H. Bedford-Jones, Bigfoot Joe, and Others: Figments of Fancy (1920)

“ Many and many an hour have I spent delving along dusty shelves in grimy shops, or by the less alluring ways of the spick-and-span, rebound and furbished, dustless and listed Olde Book Shoppe whose displays are priced at their weight in carets. ”

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H. Bedford-Jones, Bigfoot Joe, and Others: Figments of Fancy (1920)

“ The type of writing is intoxicating but not tonic. It is impressionistic and owns a very vague sense of philology; "vers libre" is a case in point. Art or music may legally convey impressions, but the business of words is to convey thought; each word in the language is an historical entity. When words are so cleverly conjoined as to present only an impression, something is amiss.
Our mystics have some central thought, spread it across scores of pages, and lose it ”

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H. Bedford-Jones, Bigfoot Joe, and Others: Figments of Fancy (1920)

“ I beg leave to approach Your Royal Person with an humble Offering, glean'd from long acquaintance with Your Majesty's subjects. A Work, which owes it's Rise, it's Progress, and Completion to this Source, is hence with all Humility proffered to Your Sacred Majesty. ”

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H. Bedford-Jones, Bigfoot Joe, and Others: Figments of Fancy (1920)

“ The dealers know too much about their wares and are too eager after excess profits. They fatten upon the rich manufacturer who seeks scholarly polish, or the scholar who has inherited the price of gratification. ”

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H. Bedford-Jones, Bigfoot Joe, and Others: Figments of Fancy (1920)

“ One must admit that the latter was rather silly; but to think the press of the world in a vast conspiracy of lies against Lenine et al., savored too much of a de Quincy phantasy.
Political creeds, of course, could not mar the pleasure of the visit. But in course of time it gradually dawned upon me that my guests were rather exacting in their way of taking things for granted. ”

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H. Bedford-Jones, Bigfoot Joe, and Others: Figments of Fancy (1920)

“ Eternally invincible are they, being very nebulous and vague. So lofty are their ideals and visions that never by any chance can they be brought down to concrete wordings. Fixed in the abstract, they leave to their readers the interpretation of these sacred thought-gems. ”

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