Sublime

antediluvian

Brueghel; and worse than Brueghel, because they were real.

Memories had a long half-life.

What were the adjectives you might use for her? Practical, sentimental, tough, empathetic, determined. Fearless, though no one is fearless really; more like a calculated risk-taker.

My goal first of all is to get at the truth of those years. Of those days. Without sham feelings. Just after the war this woman would have told of one war; after decades, of course, it changes somewhat, because she adds her whole life to this memory. Her whole self. How she lived those years, what she read, saw, whom she met. Finally, whether she i

‘Christabel LaMotte. Daughter of Isidore, the mythographer. Last Things. Tales Told in November. An epic called The Fairy Melusina. Very bizarre. Do you know about Melusina? She was a fairy who married a mortal to

Fine clothes could hide a turbulent soul.

need not marry, thank heaven: she need not undergo that degradation. She was saved from that dilution. She would move the tree rather more to the middle.

he was a type of man for whom love was indistinguishable from his own interests.