The Return Of The Soul

The Return of the Soul by Robert Hichens is about the interesting agony of the gentlemanly and humdrum life of the narrator. Excerpt: «Theories! What is the good of theories? They are the scourges that lash our minds in modern days, lash them into confusion, perplexity, and despair. I have never been troubled by them before. Why should I be troubled by them now? And the absurdity of Professor Black's is surely obvious. A child would laugh at it. Yes, a child! I have never been a diary writer. I have never been able to understand the amusement of sitting down late at night and scrawling minutely in some hidden book every paltry incident of one's paltry days. People say it is so interesting to read the entries years afterward.»