To Handle A Language Skillfully

Nature... Is Nothing But The Inner Voice Of Self-interest.

Strangeness Is The Indispensable Condiment Of All Beauty.

Unable To Do Away With Love, The Church Found A Way To Decontaminate It By Creating Marriage.

The More Delicate And Ambitious The Soul, The Further Do Dreams Estrange It From Possible Things.

Relate Comic Things In Pompous Fashion. Irregularity, In Other Words The Unexpected, The Surprising, The Astonishing, Are Essential To And Characteristic Of Beauty. Two Fundamental Literary Qualities: Supernaturalism And Irony. The Blend Of The Grotesque And The Tragic Are Attractive To The Mind, As Is Discord To Blasé Ears. Imagine A Canvas For A Lyrical, Magical Farce, For A Pantomime, And Translate It Into A Serious Novel. Drown The Whole Thing In An Abnormal, Dreamy Atmosphere, In The Atmosphere Of Great Days … The Region Of Pure Poetry.