Capitolo 6
simply and easily it reached fiction. Therefore, the fiction is today
the better mean for the preacher of rectitude that addresses
humanity.
Because, once more, this particular name, "A Hill-shears Novel?" For
anything as this reason.
I am writing in my study on a hill-top heather-dressed. When I raise
my eye from my sheet of paper protocol, falls on miles and miles of
open and wide heath. My window reputes out nature of unsullied.
Everything around it is fresh and pure and healthy. Through the open one
framework, the perfume of the hits of pines in with the breeze from the
neighbouring firwood. Acute sigh of aspects through the pine-needles.
Grasshoppers chirrup from deep tangles of bracken. The song of a
drops of skylark from the sky as soft rain in the summer; in the
evening, a nightjar sing-songs monotonously to us its impassioned love-
groans from his/her Persian fish on the knotty branches of the wind-swept lard
that crowns the highland. But by under in the valley, as evening
you push on, a dark flashes it reddens the north-oriental horizon. Brand
the stain where the great wen of London efforts and festers. On here
on the hills free, the acute hits of air in on us, clear and clear
from thousand leagues of open ocean; down there in the crowded one
city, watertight and it ferments, polluted with the illnesses and
vices of centuries.
This has an urban age. The men of the villages, alas, you/he/she is going away
behind them the green fields and it reddens heaths of their infancy,
you/he/she is foolishly crowding himself/herself/itself in the narrow passages and purlieus of the
great cities. Decadent and strange sins and soft pleasures decoy
them there. But I desire in these books for once more to send forth a word
in favour of taller and purer ideals of the life and art. Those that
you still get sick some ugly air and dark light of city you/he/she can wander
you side from side with me on these highlands covered with heather. Far, far under,
the theater and the music-room spread their garish gasoline-lamps. Impediment