Modern literature is a north-east wind--a blight of the human soul. I take credit to myself for having helped to make it — Thomas Love Peacock, Nightmare Abbey
Modern literature is a north-east wind--a blight of the human soul. I take credit to myself for having helped to make it — Thomas Love Peacock, Nightmare Abbey
Modern literature is a north-east wind--a blight of the human soul. I take credit to myself for having helped to make it — Thomas Love Peacock, Nightmare Abbey
Modern literature is a north-east wind--a blight of the human soul. I take credit to myself for having helped to make it — Thomas Love Peacock, Nightmare Abbey
Modern literature is a north-east wind--a blight of the human soul. I take credit to myself for having helped to make it — Thomas Love Peacock, Nightmare Abbey
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Modern literature is a north-east wind--a blight of the human soul. I take credit to myself for having helped to make it so. The way to produce fine fruit is to blight the flower. You call this a paradox. Marry, so be it.

— Thomas Love Peacock, Nightmare Abbey
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