The editor in hell, 1921

"I had a vision of editors in hell. Each sat surrounded by literary men whose souls he had damned and whose work he had disfigured. These put bits of tarred twine between his toes and set light to them. After that they tied him down and read aloud yards of the stuff he had accepted. And that was the worst torture of hell." — from an unsigned item in the Musical Courier magazine, June 30, 1921. The magazine credits The Triad, an Australian publication, as the original source of this charming sentiment.