CONTENTS

I. [A Defense of Joy][3]
II. [The Brimming Cup][27]
III. [Enthusiasm][43]
IV. [A Chapter of Enthusiasms][50]
V. [The Auto-Comrade][73]
VI. [Vim and Vision][102]
VII. [Printed Joy][133]
VIII. [The Joyful Heart for Poets][153]
IX. [The Joyous Mission of Mechanical Music][192]
X. [Masters by Proxy][216]

THE JOYFUL HEART

I

A DEFENSE OF JOY

oy is such stuff as the hinges of Heaven's doors are made of. So our fathers believed. So we supposed in childhood. Since then it has become the literary fashion to oppose this idea. The writers would have us think of joy not as a supernal hinge, but as a pottle of hay, hung by a crafty creator before humanity's asinine nose. The donkey is thus constantly incited to unrewarded efforts. And when he arrives at the journey's end he is either defrauded of the hay outright, or he dislikes it, or it disagrees with him.