I don’t really think that fiction changes lives… except it can maybe give you taste — I suppose taste can change your life.
I don’t really think that fiction changes lives… except it can maybe give you taste — I suppose taste can change your life.
“All we know of Roman immorality teaches us that absolute power is a poison, and that the Romans, being fundamentally an inartistic people, had a taste for pornography which they often gratified in the description of individuals and families on which that poison had worked.”
Rebecca West | Black Lamb and Grey Falcon