tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post5230309547285748145..comments2024-03-28T19:56:32.848-05:00Comments on Anecdotal Evidence: `One Is Never Out of Work'Patrick Kurphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08436175583386298032noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-28292591290022439952016-12-17T13:31:39.637-06:002016-12-17T13:31:39.637-06:00I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford t... I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made <br />me insufferable. <br /> -- Max Beerbohm, _More_ <br /><br /> He has the most remarkable and seductive genius--and I should <br />say about the smallest in the world. <br /> -- Lytton Strachey, letter to Clive Bell, 4 December 1917 <br /><br /> The Gods bestowed on Max the gift of perpetual old age. <br /> -- Oscar Wilde, in _Vincent O'Sullivan's _Aspects of Wilde_, <br />1936 <br /><br /> If one compares two drawings or two books of his, it is almost <br />impossible, on the evidence of the works themselves, to date them. <br />Despite this lack of development, his work doesn't 'date', as one <br />would expect, and as the work of so many of his contemporaries does. <br />If one asks why this should be so, the answer is, I believe, that in <br />him the aesthetic sensibility was never divorced, as it was in many of <br />his colleagues, from the moral feelings. Fashions in what is <br />considered beautiful or interesting are always changing, but the <br />difference between a man of honour and a scoundrel is eternal. <br /> -- W. H. Auden, _Forewords and Afterwords_, 1973The Sanity Inspectorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04808433661634318393noreply@blogger.com