Ephemerality is the little magazine's generic fate; by promptly dying it gives proof that it remained loyal to its first program.

as evidence that the remembered event actually occurred.

Perhaps [an act of molestation] did occur in some cases,

Psychoanalysis will fade away just as mesmerism and phrenology did, and for the same reason - its exploded pretensions will deprive it of recruits

"Little magazines" are, for the most part, the mayflies of the literary world.

The bow is bent, the arrow flies, The winged shaft of fate.