contraversely

Updated: May 2, 2025

And I realized again, what I had once before noted, that overly refined proprieties I do not mean proprieties of the essential kind cannot endure between man and maid cast alone in a wilderness. They become frail, insipid; and mar, rather than perfect, the harmony of existence. Contraversely, their absence adds a deeper luster, strikes the tuning-fork that hums with the true note of life.

Credo Fitch Harris - Wings of the Wind