Sublime

In myths, people turn into all kinds of things. Birds, animals, trees, flowers, rivers. Why not an American named Winston?

ascetic.

He had been reading W. H. Hudson. That sounds like an innocent occupation, but Cohn had read and reread “The Purple Land.” “The Purple Land” is a very sinister book if read too late in life. It recounts splendid imaginary amorous adventures of a perfect English gentleman in an intensely romantic land, the scenery of which is very well described. Fo

Her public reputation, like Demeter’s daughter, crawls back up from the underworld.

‘Dorian Gray’.

‘My trouble,’ said Thomas, ‘is that I have two suns, and neither outshines the other. In Bethesda I’m the worst of sinners, and in London I’m the strangest of saints, and I am never comfortable anywhere.

“Isak Dinesen’s Out of Africa.”

“Balzac, Dante, Joseph Conrad, Dickens,”

perturbation,