[Flycatcher]

So much painstaking trouble expended to so little effect.

Nicely phrased.

And that's also my observation regarding what passes for "literature" during the last half-century.

[Ouchthatonehurt]

The last art and culture journal you will ever need:
The New Criterion.

[Utah Binger]

My rules for fine art: Can you stand to live with it? And stuffed shirt's opinions are only that....

The Finest Traditional Landscape Artists in America

[pluvmantelo]

“A repetition is the re-enactment of past experience toward the end of isolating the time segment which has lapsed in order that it, the lapsed time, can be savored of itself and without the usual adulteration of events that clog time like peanuts in brittle.”
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Had I read this sentence cold, I would have guessed it was a winning entry in Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest.