Apr 29, 2007
In America … literary failure … still occur[s], but the natural conditions for the occurrence are in a curious state of camouflage, like those decorating ideas in which wood is painted to look like paper and paper to look like wood. A genius may indeed go to his grave unread, but he will hardly have gone to it unpraised.
The Decline of Book Reviewing

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