At Times Our Need For A Sympathetic

This Element Of Surprise Or Mystery — The Detective Element As It Is Sometimes Rather Emptily Called — Is Of Great Importance In A Plot. It Occurs Through A Suspension Of The Time-sequence; A Mystery Is A Pocket In Time, And It Occurs Crudely, As In "why Did The Queen Die?" And More Subtly In Half-explained Gestures And Words, The True Meaning Of Which Only Dawns Pages Ahead. Mystery Is Essential To A Plot, And Cannot Be Appreciated Without Intelligence.

But The Body Is Deeper Than The Soul And Its Secrets Inscrutable.

Those Who Search For Truth Are Too Conscious Of The Maze To Be Hard On Others...

There Lies At The Back Of Every Creed Something Terrible And Hard For Which The Worshipper May One Day Be Required To Suffer.

The Sun Was Already Declining And Each Of The Trees Held A Premonition Of Night.