id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
1143	Conrad, Joseph	Notes on Life & Letters			.txt	text/plain	79680	3405	68	If the flight of imaginative thought may be allowed to rise superior to many moralities current amongst mankind, a novelist who would think himself of a superior essence to other men would miss the first condition of his calling. In a world such as ours, so painful with all sorts of wonders, one would not exhaust oneself in barren marvelling over mere bindings, had not the fact, or rather the absence of the material fact, prominent in the case of other men whose writing counts, (for good or evil)--had it not been, I say, expressive of a direct truth spiritual and intellectual; an accident of--I suppose--the publishing business acquiring a symbolic meaning from its negative nature.	cache/1143.txt	txt/1143.txt
