Status Updates From All I Survey: A Book of Essays

If no other veto is laid upon us except ' Do not wake the baby ',
it follows that any occupation, such as directing a smooth and soundless flow of treacle into the works of the piano, or cutting off all the hair of the little girls next door and turning it into artificial beards for private theatricals—it follows, I say, that all these were tacitly permitted.

[Vachel Lindsay] did not get drunk only on the American air; he drank the air of a strange paradise, which is in some way set apart and unlike anything in the New World or the Old; a fairy sea, calmed as by a spell, that stretches far away into fantastical China and of which the nearer coast is ruled by ghosts rather than by its modern rulers.