She knew words no one had ever heard of, and she used words every day that had been mainly dead or sleeping for hundreds of years.
Mark HelprinLa guerre, la guerre, everything la guerre. That's how I grew up. So for me, it's real. It's not something in the past.
Mark HelprinAnd if you were a spirit, and time did not bind you, and patience and love were all you knew, then there you would wait for someone to return, and the story to unfold.
Mark Helprin'Freeing' a literary work into the public domain is less a public benefit than a transfer of wealth from the families of American writers to the executives and stockholders of various businesses who will continue to profit from, for example, 'The Garden Party,' while the descendants of Katherine Mansfield will not.
Mark Helprin