Status Updates From Perseus in The Wind: A Life...

prospero is "good" and "generous" and "innocent"? prospero? the tempest's prospero? really? hmm.

'we do not deal, when we write, only with words we use: we deal also with all those which, unspoken, come to the reader's mind: it is not what we actually say, it is what we make him think and see that counts as literature; and our words are a mere surface, beyond which should lie the living universe, or as much of it as all our powers can span.'