| Hee. Darwin on novelists |
[Mar. 4th, 2008|07:38 pm] |
He's commenting on how he's lost his taste for poetry and music as he grew older.
“On the other hand, novels which are works of the imagination, though not of a very high order, have been for years a wonderful relief and pleasure to me, and I often bless all novelists. A surprising number have been read aloud to me, and I like all if moderately good, and if they do not end unhappily—against which a law ought to be passed. A novel, according to my taste, does not come into the first class unless it contains some person whom one can thoroughly love, and if it be a pretty woman all the better” (Autobiography 138-9). |
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