Ideas about life organize perception; names of emotions organize sensations; rules of syntax organize thought. But pain comes on its own.
The beginning, middle, and end are parodied, reversed, and hidden by modernism, but not abandoned.
When a modest man praises himself, people listen.
Symbolism erects a facade of respectability to hide the indecency of dreams.
Art seduces, but does not exploit.
City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life.