Don Colacho’s Aphorisms

The only superiority not in danger of being eclipsed by a new superiority is that of style. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 42...

When a society’s intelligence becomes plebeian, literary criticism appears more lucid, albeit cruder. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selecci...

Error almost always walks more elegantly than the truth. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 320

Style is the order to which man subjects chaos. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 295

When originality is rare, innovation abounds. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 263

Where gestures lack style, ethics itself becomes debased. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 240

At the end of the last century there was only an “art without style”; in the second half of this century there is only a style without art. ...