All my books are little toolboxes. If people want to pen them, to use this sentence or that idea as a screwdriver or spanner to short-circuit, discredit systems of power, including eventually those from which my books emerged… so much the better.
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All my books are little toolboxes. If people want to pen them, to use this sentence or that idea as a screwdriver or spanner to short-circuit, discredit systems of power, including eventually those from which my books emerged… so much the better.
“How often, when life’s summer day
Is waning, and its sun descends,
Wisdom drives laughing wit away,
And lovers shrivel into friends!”
Walter Savage Landor