I Don't Know What To Think Until

In The Creative State A Man Is Taken Out Of Himself.

The Historian Records, But The Novelist Creates.

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.

No Man Can Be An Agnostic Who Has A Sense Of Humour.

Our Final Experience, Like Our First, Is Conjectural. We Move Between Two Darkness's.