The first edition of "Le Livre mystique" was sold in ten days, and the second followed it a month after, which, as Balzac remarked sardonically, was "good fortune for an unintelligible work."
"Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings"
Mary F. Sandars
In the chapter on "La Morale mystique"-one which has been sharply criticised by Christians-Maeterlinck sunders the soul from the conscious acts of the body.
"Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck"
Jethro Bithell
It was done to create a mystique about he and his brothers as well as to elicit the approval of the senator who preferred people who could break out of their own skins.
"Corpus of a Siam Mosquito"
Steven Sills