Imagination without knowledge leads no farther than the back yard of primitive art, the child's scrawl on the fence, and the crank's message in the market place. Art is never simple.

The term "bend sinister" means a heraldic bar or band drawn from the left side (and popularly, but incorrectly, supposed to denote bastardy). This choice of title was an attempt to suggest an outline broken by refraction, a distortion in the mirror of being, a wrong turn taken by life, a sinistral and sinister world. The title's drawback is that a solemn reader looking for "general ideas" or "human interest" (which is much the same thing) in a novel may be led to look for them in this one.

Let all of life be an unfettered howl.

Was she really beautiful? Was she at least what they call attractive? She was exasperation, she was torture.

I was weeping again, drunk on the impossible past.

I cannot disobey something which I do not know and the reality of which I have the right to deny.

Coordinating there Events and objects with remote events And vanished objects. Making ornaments Of accidents and possibilities.