Sublime

At the center of his analysis was the insistence that modern man, “like Macbeth,” had made an evil decision to trade allegiance to transcendent principles for present gain.

One of Laurel Manderley’s profs at Wellesley had once criticized her freshman essays for what he’d called their tin ear and cozening tone of unearned confidence, which had immediately become dark parts of her own self concept.

Authorities:

Paul is a remarkable man who believes that failure to hit the bull’s-eye is never the fault of the target, and failure to buy is never the fault of the prospect.

Man is a form of expression who is traditionally expected to repeat himself

Paul’s conversion, in other words, as his legacy makes clear, elaborated the problems it was trying to solve (it didn’t stop commentary, it prompted it).

Was verleiht einem Menschen Glanz, der doch nach allen Kriterien der Gutbürgerlichkeit vollends versagt hat?

Ponderous Paul

the human megaphone is in full swing.