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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson: fish god! All art swings down towards imitation, in these days,
fatally. But the man who loves art with wisdom sees the joke; it
is the lustful that tremble and respect her ladyship; but the
honest and romantic lovers of the Muse can see a joke and sit down
to laugh with Apollo.
The prospect of your return to Europe is very agreeable; and I was
pleased by what you said about your parents. One of my oldest
friends died recently, and this has given me new thoughts of death.
Up to now I had rather thought of him as a mere personal enemy of
my own; but now that I see him hunting after my friends, he looks
altogether darker. My own father is not well; and Henley, of whom
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