“Man is the animal who weeps and laughs — and writes. If the first Prometheus brought fire from heaven in a fennel-stalk, the last will take it back — in a book.”

—  John Cowper Powys

The Pleasures of Literature (1938), p. 17 <!-- London: Cassell -->

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