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Rigor Mortis Has Set In

Rigor Mortis Has Set In

Rigor Mortis Has Set In “I am beginning to be sorry that I ever undertook to write this book. Not that it bores me; I have nothing else to do; indeed, it is a welcome distraction from eternity. But the book is tedious, it smells of the tomb, it has a rigor mortis about it; a serious fault, and yet a relatively small one, for the great defect of this book is you, reader. You want to live fast, to…

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Sublime Fool Wrestling Creative Muses

Sublime Fool Wrestling Creative Muses

Sublime Fool Wrestling Creative Muses “If you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out and sent rambling. You must write every single day of your life. You must read dreadful dumb books and glorious books, and let them wrestle in beautiful fights inside your head, vulgar one moment, brilliant the next. You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes…

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Alas, Chiefly The Evil Emotions Leave

Alas, Chiefly The Evil Emotions Leave

“It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photograph on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon?”–Algernon H. Blackwood