baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
> At present the realities are life and death, peace and war, fascism and democracy; we are in a world which may soon become unfit for human beings to live in. A writer must decide at what remove from this conflagration he can produce his best work and be careful to keep there.
Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise, 1938.