Show j Of a novel says Sir Walter Besant I ask but one thing Seize me I say SeIze me and hold me with a grip of steel Make me deaf and blind to all the world so long as I read in thine enchanted pages Carry me whither thou wilt Play on me do with me what thou wilt at thine own sweet will Make me shriek with pain fill my eyes with tears and my heart with sorrow let ma laugh aloud let me bubble over with joy of silent mirth let me forget that the earth is full of oppression wickedness Only seize me and hold me tightImmovable rapt hypnotized deaf and blind to all the world I confess that unless this condition con-dition is fulfilled I cannot read a novel If Sir Walter wants alIl of these sensations sen-sations all he has to do is to get on a jag and have the police take him in |