"Text of Cawein's Waste Land"

"To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life."

"I don’t like to hear people speaking in my work. I like reading it, and I marvel at people who can do it well. And there’s something when you see it done well. It’s just so terrific. But I’m not able …"

"The room took shape in all its squalor: clothes scattered everywhere; plates of half-finished meals; the long table used as a desk, every inch of its surface covered by moldering documents, books, and…"

"St. Augustine at the Christian Classics Ethereal Library"