it is also explicit in the self-consciousness with which every epistolean addresses the relationship between art and life

It was cocking her up with gimcrack notions about ladies till she'd be ashamed to look at her own hands after she had done a day's work with them.

At last, after years of patient waiting, he stood like Moses on the mountain, looking down into the Promised Land.

The old version was okay, but the new version blows chunks.