November 2011
40 posts
“The most transitory of things, a shadow, the proverbial emblem of all that is fleeting and momentary, may be fettered by the spells of our ‘natural magic,’ and may be fixed for ever in the position which it seemed only destined for a single instant to occupy.”
—William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877 British Engineer and Pioneer of photography)
“There is an old saying that those who eat toasted cheese at night will dream of Lucifer. The author of ‘Wuthering Heights’ has evidently eaten toasted cheese. How a human being could have attempted such a book as the present without committing suicide before he had finished a dozen chapters, is a mystery.”
—Unsigned notice of ‘Wuthering Heights’ (July 1848)
