And then alas! I let the matter reset, watching and waiting only, as we have too often done.

That was the most awkward Wednesday he ever remembered.

End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path... One that we all must take.

And its object is Art not power, sub-creation not domination and tyrannous re-forming of Creation.

I am not a 'democrat' only because 'humility' and equality are spiritual principles corrupted by the attempt to mechanize and formalize them, with the result that we get not universal smallness and humility, but universal greatness and pride, till some Orc gets hold of a ring of power--and then we get and are getting slavery.

Do we walk in legends or on the green earth in the daylight?' A man may do both,' said Aragorn. 'For not we but those who come after will make the legends of our time. The green earth, say you? That is a mighty matter of legend, though you tread it under the light of day!

I am wholly in favour of 'dull stodges'. A surprising large proportion prove 'educable': for which a primary qualification is the willingness to do work.