Dancing Unicorn Books

They accepted anything that came along. There was no longer any normal, any natural course of things, moral or physical, for them to expect. Custom, habit, all the determining forces of learning were gone; only brute experience remained.

If I wanted promotion in my business I would ask myself, "What additional responsibilities would be mine were I to be given this great promotion? What would I do? What would I say? What would I see? How would I act? And then in my imagination I would begin to see and touch and do and act as I would outwardly see and touch and act were I in that position

Observe that if these assumptions are proven true, they promise a scientific ethics, a natural value system, a court of ultimate appeal for the determination of good and bad, of right and wrong.

was suffering the whole time, not exactly from an illness, but oppressed by an influenza-like exhaustion which made me incapable of anything.

But I am not yet well, I find writing difficult, and so you must take these few lines in lieu of more.

Even here they are round me : the Bible, and the books of the great Danish writer Jens Peter Jacobsen.5

Get hold of the little volume called Six Tales by J. P. Jacobsen, and his novel Niels Lyhne, and start with the first story in the former book, which is called Mogens.

A work of art is good if it has grown out of necessity

For the creator must be a world for himself, and find everything within himself, and in Nature to which he has attached himself.

oppressed by an influenza-like exhaustion which made me incapable of anything.