How many lazy men’s truths have been admitted in the name of imagination! How often has the term imagi nation been used to prettify the unhealthy tendency of the soul to soar off in a boundless quest after truth, leaving the body where it always was! How often have men escaped from the pains of their own bodies with the aid of that sentimental aspect of the imagination that feels the ills of others’ flesh as its own! And how often has the imagination unquestioningly exalted spiritual sufferings whose relative value was in fact excessively difficult to gauge!
Muscles have gradually become something akin to classical Greek. To revive the dead language, the discipline of the steel was required; to change the silence of death into the eloquence of life, the aid of steel was essential.
Ortaçağ Avrupası'nda Latince yazılmamış her şeye roman denirdi. 1985'e girdiğimiz şu günlerde ülkemizde Türkçe yazılmış her şeyin roman olduğuna inananlar var.