Nobody Is Capable Of Of

Those Who Are Concerned With The Arts Are Often Asked Questions, Not Always Sympathetic Ones, About The Use Or Value Of What They Are Doing. It Is Probably Impossible To Answer Such Questions Directly, Or At Any Rate To Answer The People Who Ask Them.

Teaching Literature Is Impossible; That Is Why It Is Difficult.

Separatism Is A Very Healthy Movement Within Culture. It's A Disastrous Movement Within Politics And Economics.

The Traveler From Europe Edges Into It Like A Tiny Jonah Entering An Inconceivably Large Whale, Slipping Past The Straits Of Belle Isle Into The Gulf Of St. Lawrence, Where Five Canadian Provinces Surround Him, For The Most Part Invisible... To Enter Canada Is A Matter Of Being Silently Swallowed By An Alien Continent.

A Reader Who Quarrels With Postulates, Who Dislikes Hamlet Because He Does Not Believe That There Are Ghosts Or That People Speak In Pentameters, Clearly Has No Business In Literature. He Cannot Distinguish Fiction From Fact, And Belongs In The Same Category As The People Who Send Checks To Radio Stations For The Relief Of Suffering Heroines In Soap Operas.