On we read, confusing the characters with the incidents and neglecting the outcome, but tickled by the images and the turns of the talk. It is frivolous stuff, and how rare, how precious is frivolity! How few writers can prostitute all their powers!

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "On we read, confusing the characters with the incidents and neglecting the outcome, but tickled by the images and the turns of the talk. It is frivolous stuff, and how rare, how precious is frivolity! How few writers can prostitute all their powers!" in the context of "E. M. Forster, "Ronald Firbank", in Abinger Harvest (1936; 1961), p. 139" to mean that wisdom is timeless.