Henry James told Austin Dobson he’d been lost in the maze at Hampton Court.

“I am surprised at that,” Dobson answered. “I should have thought you would have felt that you were in the middle of one of your sentences.”

(From a letter of Harold J. Laski to Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Dec. 1, 1925. See Homage, A Prose Maze, Stops and Starts, and Thank You for Your Submission.)