Some learned journalists regard it as an art for babies,other holy jesusescallingthelittlechildren of our day, asa relapse into a dry and noisy, noisy and monotonousprimitivism. Sensibility is not constructed on the basis ofa word; all constructions converge on perfection whichis boring, the stagnant idea of a gilded swamp, arelative human product. A work of art should not bebeauty in itself, for beauty is dead; it should be neithergay nor sad, neither light nor dark to rejoice or torturethe individual by serving him the cakes of sacredaureoles or the sweets of a vaulted race through theatmospheres.neither light nor
deadneither gay nor sadneither light nor deadneither^ light
nor deadneither
light nor deadneither light
nor deadneither light nordead