The city of din, a tirade against noise / [Dan McKenzie].

  • Dan McKenzie
Date:
1916
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Credit: The city of din, a tirade against noise / [Dan McKenzie]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    easy to develop, I am leaving the mystical or allegorical City of Din entirely to the reader’s imagination, all the more gratefully as it would he difficult suddenly to switch the mind at the end of the hook from three- dimensional fact to four-dimensional fancy where the simplest expressions loom large upon us through the heavy mists of allegory. As the hook stands, however, I may even now he accused of having had an occasional peep past the veil that separates the real from the ideal. If hy doing so I have caused offence, then I am sorry for it, but in justice to myself I may point out that, like a cat on a rainy day, I got hack to cover the instant I felt my feet wet. Think, besides, of the temptation ! Even now this metaphorical City fascinates me to such an extent that I can only with diffi- culty resist its attraction. And so it will anybody who thinks about it at all. The idea is so full of possibilities. The City is so full of din-mongers But there! A strong pull on the curb or Pegasus will bolt! D.M.
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