It smells terrible in here.' Well, what do you expect? The human body, when confined, produces certain odors which we tend to forget in this age of deodorants and other perversions. Actually, I find the atmosphere of this room rather comforting. Schiller needed the scent of apples rotting in his desk in order to write. I, too, have my needs. You may remember that Mark Twain preferred to lie supinely in bed while composing those rather dated and boring efforts which contemporary scholars try to prove meaningful. Veneration of Mark Twain is one of the roots of our current intellectual stalemate.

Having once been so high, humanity fell so low. What had once been dedicated to the soul was now dedicated to the sale.

with the breakdown of the medieval system, the gods of chaos, lunacy, and bad taste gained ascendancy.

Oh, New Orleans is such freedom.

Stop!' I cried imploringly to my god-like mind.

Canned food is a perversion,' Ignatius said. 'I suspect that it is ultimately very damaging to the soul.

I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.