How do you propose to treat it ?" "What do you mean ?" "When you write about it: Are you going to write about it as a realist, a mystic, or a romanticist ?" I said I didn't know.
"Well, a man who is going to write of a sewer _ought_ to know," he told me severely.

"You're not up to sewers yet.

They're too big for you.

If you take my advice you'll keep out of the sewers for the present and stick to the gutters." So I did..