Monday, March 09, 2009

why did he not write out his thoughts

"She asked him why did he not write out his thoughts. For what, he asked her, with careful scorn. To compete with phrasemongers, incapable of thinking consecutively for sixty seconds? To submit himself to the criticisms of an obtuse middle class which entrusted its morality to policemen and its fine arts to impresarios?"

--James Joyce, "A Painful Case," 1914

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