Splinters

Read Daniel Green's stimulating post Merely Literary. See Golden Rule Jones' response and then Leonard Bast's (the tragic character played memorably by Samuel West in Howard's End, the only reason I know the name).

I might add something along these lines at In Writing should the muse not stand me up. During the meanwhilst, I think of Kafka's aphorism: How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?