Self-absorption intensifies isolation, but permits it to go unnoticed.
Interpreting the dance: young women in white dancing in a ring can only be virgins; old women in black dancing in a ring can only be witches; but middle-aged women in colors, square dancing...?
The novel avoids the sublime and seeks out the interesting.
Creativity is not a substitute for competence.
Nature knows no difference between weeds and flowers.
Modern pictures banish depiction for interfering with the workings of paint.