A problematic virtue.

Some of Saki's stories aspire to that strange literary criterion to which I pledged myself in my youth. Any sentence taken in isolation from the whole is enjoyable as an atomic, stand-alone unit. I am in the process of transcribing my favorite passages from all of Saki's works (as if to somehow siphon some of their worth by physically writing them myself, in addition to simply further ingraining them into my consciousness) and some of his stories I have trouble not transcribing in full, line by line. A problematic virtue.