Chapter 34: The Torrents of Spring

The Torrents of Spring A Romantic Novel in Honor of the Passing of a Great Race And perhaps there is one reason why a comic writer should of all others be the least excused for deviating from nature, since it may not be always so easy for a serious poet to meet with the great and the admirable; but life everywhere furnishes an accurate observer with the ridiculous. Henry Fielding Red and Black Laughter The only source of the true Ridiculous (as it appears to me) is affe…