Algernon Blackwood

“ And for his type, thus representing some power of unexpended mythological values strayed back into modern life to find itself denied and ridiculed⁠—he had chosen a Centaur! For he wished it to symbolise what he believed was to be the next stage in human evolution: Intuition no longer neglected, but developed equally with Reason. His Centaur was to stand for instinct (the animal body close to Nature) combined with, yet not dominated by, the upright stature moving towards deity. ”

“ In what details would he betray that, though outwardly a man, he was inwardly this survival of the Golden Age, escaped from some fair Eden, splendid, immense, simple, and beneficent, yet⁠—a Centaur?
Perhaps it was just as well he had “stuck,” for his brother would shortly be in, and his brother was a successful business man with the money-sense and commercial instincts strongly developed. He dealt in rice and sugar. With his brother in the flat no Centaur could possibly survive for a single moment. ”

“ Having dined upon a beefsteak and a pint of bitter, Jones went home to work. The trouble with Jones⁠—his first name William⁠—was that he possessed creative imagination: that luggage upon which excess charges have to be paid all through life⁠—to the critic, the stupid, the orthodox, the slower minds without the “flash.” He was alone in his brother’s flat. ”