No, fools, no, goitrous cretins that you are, a book does not make gelatine soup; a novel is not a pair of seamless boots; a sonnet, a syringe with a continuous jet; or a drama, a railway — all things which are essentially civilising and adapted to... The Works of Théophile Gautier: Mademoiselle de Maupin - Page 77 by Théophile Gautier - 1900 Full view -
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