The 'creative faculty'... was lethargic; it sometimes roused itself to spurts and flashes during wakeful nights, but slept like a boa-constrictor that had swallowed a pig when he tried to invoke it.


Black Oxen (1922)

Gertrude Atherton Quotes

The 'creative faculty'... was lethargic; it sometimes roused itself to spurts and flashes during wakeful nights, but slept like a boa-constrictor...

The 'creative faculty'... was lethargic; it sometimes roused itself to spurts and flashes during wakeful nights, but slept like a boa-constrictor...

The 'creative faculty'... was lethargic; it sometimes roused itself to spurts and flashes during wakeful nights, but slept like a boa-constrictor...

The 'creative faculty'... was lethargic; it sometimes roused itself to spurts and flashes during wakeful nights, but slept like a boa-constrictor...