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My Life and Loves, Book 1They are megalocephalous and emasculate. English women speak a great deal about sex… It is a cruel position for the English novel. The novelist may discuss anything but the main preoccupation of life… we are compelled to pad out with murder, theft and arson which, as everybody knows, are perfectly moral things to write about.» Pure is the snow-till mixed with mire- But never half so pure as fire. There are greater reasons than any I have yet given why the truth should be told boldly. The time has come when those who are, as Shakespeare called them, «God's Spies,» having learned the mystery of things, should be called to counsel, for the ordinary political guides have led mankind to disaster: blind leaders of the blind! Over Niagara we have plunged, as Carlyle predicted, and as every one with vision must have foreseen, and now like driftwood we move round and round the whirlpool impotently without knowing whither or why. One thing certain: we deserve the misery into which we have fallen. The laws of this world are inexorable and don't cheat! Where, when, how have we gone astray? The malady is as wide as civilization which fortunately narrows the enquiry to time ...» |
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