Status Updates From Perseus in the Wind

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.'