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Artists and mountain climbers have at least one common qualification. Dizziness must have no terrors for either. Perched on their respective peaks, the world becomes for them a distant and not particularly agreeable noise, wafted irrelevantly from an ignoble abyss. Conversely, the world is insignificantly concerned with the doings of the Alp scalers. Once you get appreciably above sealevel, you cease to be anybody's business. Incidentally, you cease to have any business of your own. Therein lies the glorious, soaring futility of art and mountaineering alike. Neither of them have any conceivable relation to life and the practical living...
...writer is at his worst when he loses his grip on the pinnacle and goes tumbling down the mountain side to land with a dull and prosy thud in the world of his creation. As soon as he ceases to be the hermit of the high place; as soon as he begins to share the whims and fancies of mortality; as soon as he begins to take sides and see his characters as mouthpieces of his merely temporal cogitations, he ceases to be the climbing demigod, becomes the plodding propagandist. J.A.T...
...propagators of our highly estimable religion had an effect, almost equally miraculous, in the winning of converts--much as the modern missionary finds them useful to overcome the impassiveness of the unbeliever. To the untutored masses of the Empire, it was not a question of Mohammed going to the Mountain to be convinced, but rather of the Mountain coming to Mohammed in order to convince him by a material display of power. Never having been acquainted with even the possibility of such a higher life as the spiritual before, the slave and citizen of Rome, and elsewhere, demanded proof...
...Highest was injured, related that the injury occurred by a rope striking the Kaiser in the course of some manoeuvres and that no altercation occurred between him and von Hahnke. He said that the Lieutenant went ashore for a spin on a bicycle and on descending a mountain path lost control of his machine, ran over the edge of a cliff, was dashed into the sea and killed...
There is a sense of prophecy and of deep moral values in Bojer's books. They are all books which would like to bring to humanity something of the nobility of sea and mountain moods. Llewellyn Jones says of them...