One Form of Failure
From a worldly point of view there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
Andromeda
The dragon was never in better health and spirits than on the morning when Perseus came down upon him. It is said that Andromeda told Perseus she had been thinking how remarkably well he was looking. He had got up quite in his usual health—and so on.
When I said this to Ballard [a fellow art-student at Heatherley’s] and that other thing which I said about Andromeda in Life and Habit, 225 he remarked that he wished it had been so in the poets.
I looked at him. “Ballard,” I said, “I also am ‘the poets.’”