The constitutional guardian I, / Of pretty young Wards in Chancery.

I was a pale young curate then.

I'm a greenery-yallery, Grosvenor Gallery, / Foot-in-the-grave young man!

Perchance the chemist is already damned and the guardian the blackest.

There is a deeper, more profound reason for this craving for acceptance and glory. Put simply, it's because all writers are fat and/or ugly. And generally socially inept. Me being the notable exception, of course. Writers want to be special, because they're so not. They're losers, overgrown kids who've never escaped from being misfits and who have run away into their own imaginations in an attempt to find self-esteem. Why do you think they all star in their own books? Self included.

You say to me - wards your affection's strong; Pray love me little, so you love me long