( Henry James) “I have been a child, but i have never been on a quest for
buried treasure.” Here is, indeed, a wilful paradox; for if he has
never been on a quest for buried treasure, it can be demonstrated
that he has never been a child. There never was a child (unless
Master James) but has hunted gold, and been a pirate, and a
military commander, and a bandit of the mountains; but has
fought, and suffered shipwreck and prison, and imbrued its little
hands in gore, and gallantly retrieved the lost battle, and
triumphantly protected innocence and beauty.