Whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first call promising. - Cyril Connolly

"A love affair is a grafting operation. "What has once been joined never forgets". There is a moment when the graft takes; up to then it is possible without difficulty the separation which afterwards comes only through breaking off a great hunk of oneself; the ingrown fibre of hours, days, years."

The lesson one can learn from Firbank is that of inconsequence. There is the vein which he tapped and which has not yet been fully exploited.

We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion.