[The Fortunate Youth by William J. Locke]@TWC D-Link bookThe Fortunate Youth CHAPTER VII 7/33
He had dreams of that manager on his bended knees, imploring him, with prayerful hands and streaming eyes, to play Hamlet at a salary of a thousand a week and of himself haughtily snapping his fingers at the paltry fellow. Well, which one of us who has ever dreamed at all has not had such dreams at twenty? Let him cast at Paul the first stone. And then, you must remember, Paul's faith in his vague but glorious destiny was the dynamic force of his young life.
Its essential mystery kept him alert and buoyant.
His keen, self-centred mind realized that his search on the stage for the true expression of his genius was only empirical.
If he failed there, it was for him to try a hundred other spheres until he found the right one.
But just as in his childish days he could not understand why he was not supreme in everything, so now he could not appreciate the charge of wooden inferiority brought against him by theatrical managers. He had been on the stage about three years when for the first time in his emancipated life something like a calamity befell him.
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