non-artists

Updated: June 20, 2025

In every marriage there is a topic there are usually several which the husband will never broach to the wife, out of respect for his respect for her. Priam scarcely guessed that Alice imagined him to be on the way to lunacy. He thought she merely thought him queer, as artists are queer to non-artists. And he was accustomed to that; Henry Leek had always thought him queer.

Arnold Bennett - Buried Alive: a Tale of These Days