Before I got mixed up in the bureaucratic blender I derived nine beliefs I still live by: 

:.. There are no secrets to be found in literature 

:.. A writer has no reason for writing 

:.. The power and integrity of art is due to its principles 

:.. Words are the oldest living beings 

:.. The true critic is she who manages to get Lazarus out 

:.. A text left to itself is like the note found among Nietzsche’s papers: "I forgot my umbrella" 

:.. You can fake profundity but not the talent for writing 

:.. Style is knowledge 

:.. There is no use for texts whose reception is decided beforehand

Try for yourself:
As I was going up the stair I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today. I wish, I wish he'd stay away. 
-- Hughes Mearns, The Psychoed

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