Happy Valentines!

(I love you too, Peter!)


"H'm!" said Wimsey. "If that's the way your mind works, you'll be a writer one day."

"Do you think so? That's what I want to be! But why?"

"Because you have the creative imagination, which works outwards, till finally you will be able to stand outside your own experience and see it as something you have made, existing independently of yourself. You're lucky."

"Do you really think so?" Hilary looked excited.

"Yes - but your luck will come more at the end of life than at the beginning, because the other sort of people won't understand the way your mind works. They will start by thinking you dreamy and romantic, and then they'll be surprised to discover the you are really hard and heartless. They'll be quite wrong both times - but they won't ever know it, and you won't know it at first, and it'll worry you."

"But that's just what the girls say at school. How did you know?...Though they're all idiots - mostly, that is."

"Most people are, " said Wimsey, gravely, "but it isn't kind to tell them so."

~Dorothy L. Sayers, from The Nine Tailors, a Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery.

posted by Headless-in-GR @ 2/11/2006 02:20:00 PM