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(Economics professor William Watson): 'Only connect," wrote E.M. Forster in his 1910 novel, Howards End. It has become his most famous phrase. There's even a Forster website titled "Only connect."

The usual understanding of "Only connect" is that people need to make deep and meaningful connections with other people, which of course we all should. But in fact the phrase occurs in a passage where one character is trying to persuade another - or at least planning to try to persuade another - to connect the different parts of his rather coldhearted character: "Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer."