Sublime

She thought of him as a source of knowledge rather than experience; a good, though not contemporary mind, a person rather than a man.

exile

All children want to be ordinary, and she never was, and that had been difficult – but all adults want to be extraordinary, and now she amplifies her strangeness, delighting in her ignorance of worldly matters and her tendency to speak sometimes in a biblical cadence, telling men she meets that she was born in 1887 (this being the year they dug Bet

Or—like Boris—is it better to throw yourself head

inchoate

droll, delicate, precise and alerting.

THE CRITIC