Classic American Love

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    The detective novel is the art-for-art’s-sake of our yawning Philistinism, the classic example of a specialized form of art removed from contact with the life it pretends to build on.
    —V.S. (Victor Sawdon)

    I repeat that in this sense the most splendid court in Christendom is provincial, having authority to consult about Transalpine interests only, and not the affairs of Rome. A prætor or proconsul would suffice to settle the questions which absorb the attention of the English Parliament and the American Congress.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “... To many women I have said “lie still”
    And given everything that a woman needs
    A roof, good clothes, passion, love perhaps
    But never asked for love, should I ask that
    I shall be old indeed.”
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)