Sublime

In fact, he came to be regarded locally as the prime reason for Borup and Champlin’s reputation for efficiency. He worked incredibly hard, sometimes laboring late into the night, falling asleep at the desk, then getting up for a swim in the river and a cup of black coffee, then going back to work. As he saw it in retrospect, these years formed his

felt, as it were, in her own body the joyous germination in the soil.

ursine.

The phone clicks and goes dead. Olivia hangs up, a newly minted orphan. A thing reaching toward the sun, ready for anything.

Il entrevoyait ce que serait leur vie dans les années à venir : une atmosphère de travail, de confort et de bien-être, où il s’imaginait avec Ruth lisant et discutant de poésie, elle, allongée parmi une profusion de coussins jetés sur le sol, lui, faisant la lecture.

concupiscence

About his figure there is a Celtic pathos; like the Gaels in Matthew Arnold’s quotation, “he went forth to battle, but he always fell.” He is a mountain of proposals, a mountain of failures; but still a mountain. And a mountain is always romantic.

his story expressed one of the unappeasable longings of the human imagination: the idea of a perfected society in which the world’s lost innocence will be restored and the Golden Age before the Fall will return.