"Only Connect" -- Peter Leyland
“Only Connect” – Piecing it Together “Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die.” Margaret Schlegel, Howards End Connecting the inner and the outer worlds is something that we writers do in many ways, sometimes without even thinking: you can call this inspiration or imagination through which you create a character or a story, or a poem; you can think of E. M. Forster’s famous novel, Howards End, where Leonard Bast and Henry Wilcox fail to connect their inner and outer lives and end up in deep trouble; you can follow a talk by Richard Layard, which I did recently, where he says that we can find it possible to connect with our better selves and the better selves...