Ideas about life organize perception; names of emotions organize sensations; rules of syntax organize thought. But pain comes on its own.
Studying the past may suggest new ways of going wrong.
Nothing goes sour more easily than the life of pleasure.
The flesh of past lovers looks both familiar and strange.
A laughing Lear would be monstrous. Not so a laughing Romeo and Juliet.
Modernism: the books are as hard to understand as life itself.