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Zuleika Dobson; Or, An Oxford Love Story
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Sir Max Beerbohm
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Know,
then,
that
for
a
long
time
Clio
had
been
thoroughly
discontented.
She
was
happy
enough,
she
says,
when
first
she
left
the
home
of
Pierus,
her
father,
to
become
a
Muse.
On
those
humble
beginnings
she
looks
back
with
affection.
She
kept
only
one
servant,
Herodotus.
The
romantic
element
in
him
appealed
to
her.
He
died,
and
she
had
about
her
a
large
staff
of
able
and
faithful
servants,
whose
way
of
doing
their
work
irritated
and
depressed
her.
To
them,
apparently,
life
consisted
of
nothing
but
politics
and
military
operations--things
to
which
she,
being
a
woman,
was
somewhat
indifferent.
She
was
jealous
of
Melpomene.
It
seemed
to
her
that
her
own
servants
worked
from
without
at
a
mass
of
dry
details
which
might
as
well
be
forgotten.
Melpomene’s
worked
on
material
that
was
eternally
interesting--the
souls
of
men
and
women;
and
not
from
without,
either;
but
rather
casting
themselves
into
those
souls
and
showing
to
us
the
essence
of
them.
She
was
particularly
struck
by
a
remark
of
Aristotle’s,
that
tragedy
was
“more
philosophic”
than
history,
inasmuch
as
it
concerned
itself
with
what
might
be,
while
history
was
concerned
with
merely
what
had
been.
This
summed
up
for
her
what
she
had
often
felt,
but
could
not
have
exactly
formulated.
She
saw
that
the
department
over
which
she
presided
was
at
best
an
inferior
one.
She
saw
that
just
what
she
had
liked--and
rightly
liked--in
poor
dear
Herodotus
was
just
what
prevented
him
from
being
a
good
historian.
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