another turn, and we are between excellent meadow-grounds, which lack only a few fat sheep, an old molecatcher and some crows.

The metaphorical blue-sky thinking recommended by startup accelerators in Silicon Valley is no substitute for the blue sky itself, which will go on shining whether we are here to look at it or not.

a whaleboned corset

There is no necessary, far less automatic, connection between intermediatory behaviour and the production of literature.