The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers....Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.

You have the older generation like Iris Murdoch and Angus Wilson who are not as old as Graham Greene, but still are coming on. I dare say anyone who knew the scene better than I know it could fill it in with a very satisfactory supply of novels.

Of the authors writing in English, I'd mention Shakespeare and Milton. But all this is terribly high-hat and makes me sound very po-faced, I'm afraid; however, I just happen to like these enormous, swinging, great creatures.

The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.

Worse than madness. Sanity.

Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?

Even if you got rid of paper, you would still have story-tellers. In fact, you had the story-tellers before you had the paper.