A Failure.
" What arc \ou!" he asked. "A failure."' "How?" "At many things. I failed, in the first instance, as a dramatist. I have failed also as a poet, if any man is so mean SB to iail as a poet. My novel never ran into ten editions. Incidentally, lam also a somewhat conepicuous failure as a barrister." "Then you are a strikingly versatile and successful failure for a man apparently under 40." "You ha\e summed me up." "What do you do now?" " I'm now a caricaturist." " Indeed ! And are you still consistent?" "Quite; I am a failure ac a caricaturist." "Then what do you do for a living?" "I am paid to caricature. If I caricatured; better than I do no one would pay me for ,my work. In letters, also, the matter' is the same. Tho worst writers are the host- paid. The twentieth century ie the apothesis of the failure." ' You think that the public will never educate itself up to understanding the good so long as it can thoroughly enjoy the bad?" "Mv continued existence is a proof of that fa< t. In art, a bad likeness of a man is held to be a caricature. In literature a bad likeness of life is regarded as realism." — Frank Richardson, in the Christmas number of the Sporting and Dramatic News.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2814, 19 February 1908, Page 91
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223A Failure. Otago Witness, Issue 2814, 19 February 1908, Page 91
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