The Last Sin, The Sin Against The

Publishers Of Course Have You Altogether In Their Grip; If They Say You Must Do A Thing You Have Jolly Well Got To Do It.

A Hot Bath! How Exquisite A Vespertine Pleasure, How Luxurious, Fervid And Flagrant A Consolation For The Rigours, The Austerities, The Renunciations Of The Day.

The Impulse To Ask Questions Is Among The More Primitive Human Lusts.

Words, Living And Ghostly, The Quick And The Dead, Crowd And Jostle The Otherwise Too Empty Corridors Of My Mind ... To Move Among This Bright, Strange, Often Fabulous Herd Of Beings, To Summon Them At My Will, To Fasten Them On To Paper Like Flies, That They May Decorate It, This Is The Pleasure Of Writing.

Giving Is Not At All Interesting; But Receiving Is, There Is No Doubt About It, Delightful.