English literature is a flying fish.
Hope, politeness, the blowing of a nose, the squeak of a boot, all produce "boum.
Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
Sex begins before adolescence, and survives sterility; it is indeed coeval with our lives, although at the mating age its effects are more obvious to Society.
Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull.
The traveller who has gone to Italy to study the tactile values of Giotto, or the corruption of the Papacy, may return remembering nothing but the blue sky and the men and women who live under it.