Wreade1872’s Reviews > Beyond Life > Status Update

...first time getting to read my hardcopy, 1923 leatherette, very cool

the general public enjoys reading any book, of any kind, that is being read by the public generally, through much that herd instinct for doing what everybody else is doing, which exalts sane women upon three-inch heels, and attaches buttons to the sleeves and coat-tails of presumably intelligent men.

When you consider that presidents and chief-justices and archbishops and kings and statesmen are human beings like you and me and the laundryman, the thought becomes too horrible for humanity to face.

So always this problem confronts the creative writer, as to what compromise is permissible between his existence as an artist and his existence as an ephemeral animal.
And this problem has the dubious distinction of being absolutely the only question no writer has ever settled, even to his own satisfaction...

..and you even discover in the woman a number of admirable and quite unsuspected traits. In fact, you would as willingly part with your right hand as part with her: but then, when all is said, you are not in love with your right hand either. And you very often wonder what has become of that other woman, whom you thought you were marrying.