Pagan Papers
by Kenneth Grahame
A few years before Kenneth Graham wrote The Wind in the Willows, he published a very different book: Pagan Papers, a bold, witty, large-scale collection of eighteen irresistible articles. To walk, to bend over, to smoke, to collect books and to reflect, the author reflects the human condition. What to do with relatives who are on the way? What is the appropriate punishment for a binder who takes too long in his work? Are free libraries a blessing that is not complicated? More serious: Nothing makes it worthwhile for us not to fight with our friends yet? Which is more desirable: memory or forgetfulness? Are we irrevocably disconnected from the natural world, or could there still be a way back to it?
