An Artist's Business Is Only To See.

I Am Not Prepared To Deny Or Assert Any Proposition Which Concerns Myself; But Certainly This Solitary Struggle With Platitudinous Atoms, Called Men And Women By Courtesy, Leads Me To Wish For My Wife Again. How Did I Ever Hit On The Only Woman In The World Who Fits My Cravings And Never Sounds Hollow Anywhere? Social Chemistry-the Mutual Attraction Of Equivalent Human Molecules-is A Science Yet To Be Created, For The Fact Is My Daily Study And Only Satisfaction In Life.

Chaos Often Breeds Life, When Order Breeds Habit.

The Spider-mind Acquires A Faculty Of Memory, And, With It, A Singular Skill Of Analysis And Synthesis, Taking Apart And Putting Together In Different Relations The Meshes Of Its Trap. Man Had In The Beginning No Power Of Analysis Or Synthesis Approaching That Of The Spider, Or Even Of The Honey-bee; But He Had Acute Sensibility To The Higher Forces.

The First Serious Consciousness Of Nature's Gesture - Her Attitude Towards Life-took Form Then As A Phantasm, A Nightmare, All Insanity Of Force. For The First Time, The Stage-scenery Of The Senses Collapsed; The Human Mind Felt Itself Stripped Naked, Vibrating In A Void Of Shapeless Energies, With Resistless Mass, Colliding, Crushing, Wasting, And Destroying What These Same Energies Had Created And Labored From Eternity To Perfect.

As For America, It Is The Ideal Fruit Of All Your Youthful Hopes And Reforms. Everybody Is Fairly Decent, Respectable, Domestic, Bourgeois, Middle-class, And Tiresome. There Is Absolutely Nothing To Revile Except That It's A Bore.