Sublime

The banker’s speech was fluent, but it was also copious, and he used up an appreciable amount of time in brief meditative pauses.

Then he turned his attention to embroideries and to the tapestries that performed the office of frescoes in the chill rooms of the northern nations of Europe.

The public for which masterpieces are intended is not on this earth.

see everything as if he were Dante and he’d just returned from hell, or not Dante, I mean, but Virgil himself, such a sensitive boy,

8Merest breath, said Qohelet. All is mere breath.

frangipanni.

LISTEN:

let your haste commend your duty.

He was even in many ways very modern, which some rather erroneously suppose to be the same as being human;