Sublime

[That’s a top-quality human vessel you have.

When one reads any strongly individual piece of writing, one has the impression of seeing a face somewhere behind the page. It is not necessarily the actual face of the writer. I feel this very strongly with Swift, with Defoe, with Fielding, Stendhal, Thackeray, Flaubert, though in several cases I do not know what these people looked like and do no

hypnagogic

opined,

“You must remember that in every life there occur events so extraordinary that only the most talented and ingenious liar could have conceived them.

pragmatist.

the exploration of the planets, the billion chemical heaps in Africa that were now not even corpses,