Th’ newspaper does ivrything f’r us. It runs th’ polis foorce an’ th’ banks, commands th’ milishy, controls th’ ligislachure, baptizes th’ young, marries th’ foolish, comforts th’ afflicted, afflicts th’ comfortable, buries th’ dead...

Th’ first thing to have in a libry is a shelf.Fr’m time to time this can be decorated with lithrachure.But th’ shelf is th’ main thing.

The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better — it is just turning around as usual.

Stories are meant to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.