NPPF (Commentary) Stillicide

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from Speak, Memory:

"I discovered in nature the nonutilitarian delights that I sought in art.
Both were a form of magic, both were a game of intricate enchantment and
deception."

(re. chess problems) "Deceit, to the point of diabolism, and originality,
verging upon the grotesque, were my notions of strategy, I was always ready
to sacrifice purity of form to the exigencies of fantastical content,
causing form to bulge and burst like a sponge-bag containing a small furious
devil."
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from the BBC interview, in Strong Opinions:

". . . All art is deception and so is nature; all is deception in that good
cheat, from the insect that mimics a leaf to the popular enticements of
procreation."

"Do You know how Poetry started? I always think that it started when a cave
boy came running back to the cave, through the tall grass, shouting as he
ran, 'Wolf, wolf,' and there was no wolf. His baboon-like parents, great
sticklers for the truth, gave him a good hiding, no doubt, but poetry had
been born -- the tall story had been born in the tall grass."
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One person's sloppiness is Hugh Person's enchantment.