{"product_id":"2940013392151","title":"A FAR COUNTRY","description":"I.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMy name is Hugh Paret. I was a corporation lawyer, but by no means a\u003cbr\u003etypical one, the choice of my profession being merely incidental, and\u003cbr\u003edue, as will be seen, to the accident of environment. The book I am\u003cbr\u003eabout to write might aptly be called The Autobiography of a Romanticist.\u003cbr\u003eIn that sense, if in no other, I have been a typical American, regarding\u003cbr\u003emy country as the happy hunting-ground of enlightened self-interest, as\u003cbr\u003ea function of my desires. Whether or not I have completely got rid of\u003cbr\u003ethis romantic virus I must leave to those the aim of whose existence\u003cbr\u003eis to eradicate it from our literature and our life. A somewhat Augean\u003cbr\u003etask!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI have been impelled therefore to make an attempt at setting forth, with\u003cbr\u003ewhat frankness and sincerity I may, with those powers of selection of\u003cbr\u003ewhich I am capable, the life I have lived in this modern America; the\u003cbr\u003epassions I have known, the evils I have done. I endeavour to write a\u003cbr\u003ebiography of the inner life; but in order to do this I shall have to\u003cbr\u003erelate those causal experiences of the outer existence that take place\u003cbr\u003ein the world of space and time, in the four walls of the home, in the\u003cbr\u003eschool and university, in the noisy streets, in the realm of business\u003cbr\u003eand politics. I shall try to set down, impartially, the motives that\u003cbr\u003ehave impelled my actions, to reveal in some degree the amazing mixture\u003cbr\u003eof good and evil which has made me what I am to-day: to avoid the tricks\u003cbr\u003eof memory and resist the inherent desire to present myself other and\u003cbr\u003ebetter than I am. Your American romanticist is a sentimental spoiled\u003cbr\u003echild who believes in miracles, whose needs are mostly baubles, whose\u003cbr\u003edesires are dreams. Expediency is his motto. Innocent of a knowledge\u003cbr\u003eof the principles of the universe, he lives in a state of ceaseless\u003cbr\u003eactivity, admitting no limitations, impatient of all restrictions.\u003cbr\u003eWhat he wants, he wants very badly indeed. This wanting things was the\u003cbr\u003ecorner-stone of my character, and I believe that the science of the\u003cbr\u003efuture will bear me out when I say that it might have been differently\u003cbr\u003ebuilt upon. Certain it is that the system of education in vogue in the\u003cbr\u003e70's and 80's never contemplated the search for natural corner-stones.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt all events, when I look back upon the boy I was, I see the beginnings\u003cbr\u003eof a real person who fades little by little as manhood arrives and\u003cbr\u003eadvances, until suddenly I am aware that a stranger has taken his\u003cbr\u003eplace....","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47082792812784,"sku":"2940013392151","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013392151_p0.jpg?v=1763591847","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013392151","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}