Sublime

archives of Charles Scribner’s Sons, which are housed in the Princeton University Library.

Death is everywhere, oppressive and beautiful.

Max himself would become a character in Basso’s most successful book, The View from Pompey’s Head.)

Dans ses carnets, il dénonce d’ailleurs « les hommes avides des seules richesses et jouissances matérielles et complètement privés du désir de la sapience, unique nourriture et véritable richesse de l’âme2 ». Il consacre donc bien plus de temps à apprendre qu’à se cantonner dans des activités lucratives qui lui permettraient de gagner plus qu’il

becoming a matutinal rite as inevitable as coffee and orange juice. When the New York World—famous for its liberalism and the wit of its columnists—had ceased publication in February, 1931, Lippmann, its editor, had gone over to the Herald Tribune and to sudden national fame. Clear, cool, and orderly in his thinking, he seemed to be able to reduce

Byrne is also the author of an astute book titled How Music Works,