to what degree you produce volume a...

to what degree you produce volume after compass the way you do is more than I can conceive, moreover you haven't to forge each sentence in the teeth of irreducible and stubborn facts as I do. It is like walking by means of the densest brushwood.
William James to Henry James, note dated March 10,1887
The imagination be deprived ofs vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real. When it adheres to the unreal and intensifies what is unreal, while its first weight may be extraordinary; that drift is the maximum purport that it will ever have.
Wallace Steven The Necessary Angel (1951)
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