The educated can listen impassively to almost anything.
Shaw writes as if it were always midday.
Aphorisms know the angles, but not the structure.
Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.
Abyss-mongering makes professors and poets feel daring.
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc.