Sublime

“Caleb Porter, 52, Fashion Executive.”

Belong Anywhere,”

Count Lanfranco Rasponi, who laments that travel and movement have destroyed “society.” There is no social season any more, he says, because nobody is anywhere at the same time—except, of course, nobodies. The good Count has been quoted as saying: “Before this, if you wanted twenty for dinner, you’d have to ask forty—but now you first ask 200.”

“Unpacking My Library,”

The younger lawyer was named Marcus, he was from Shaker Heights, he had attended Penn, where he had majored in philosophy and lettered in rowing. After a stint working in a rural Mississippi town with Teach for America, he had gone on to Stanford Law School. He had a lovely wife of Korean ancestry and a six-month-old baby and was just days away