A Novelist Has Two Lives-- A Reading

How Will You Know A Good Farmer When You Meet Him? He Will Not Ask You For Any Favors.

Trollope Wrote So Many Novels And Other Works That They Tend To Crowd Each Other Out.

The Essence Of Charity ... Was Not Deciding What Others Needed And Giving It To Them, But Giving Them What They Wanted.

The Novel As A Form Is Usually Seen To Be Moral If Its Readers Consider Freedom, Individuality, Democracy, Privacy, Social Connection, Tolerance And Hope To Be Morally Good, But It Is Not Considered Moral If The Highest Values Of A Society Are Adherence To Rules And Traditional Mores, The Maintenance Of Hierarchical Relationships, And Absolute Ideas Of Right And Wrong. Any Society Based On The Latter Will Find Novels Inherently Immoral And Subversive.

If Novels And Stories Are Bulletins From The Progressive States Of Ignorance A Writer Passes Through Over The Years, Observations And Opinions About Horses Are All The More So, Since Horses Are More Mysterious Than Life And Harder To Understand.