Sublime

impiety.

trenchant,

taciturn

Then Mr. Lewis, in his charming accent and thunderous voice, begins a tale of two brothers in an attic in Ireland.

But as I studied him – and believe me, I drank him in like a parched animal at a riverbank – I began to see the cold, steady certainty of the chill green depths.

On her fourteenth birthday, he gives her a bowdlerized translation of Ovid’s Metamorphosis.

arguments. People felt very strongly about him and would remark that “Tuvia had charm. He gave us all strength, we felt more secure with him. He was very close to people, he loved them. . . . Tuvia was hard and soft at the same time. When any one of us was in trouble he was always there. He would always help. One felt safe with him.”38