Sublime

“Isak Dinesen’s Out of Africa.”

cajole

Palimpsest.

“The story tells of a Count Axel and his wife, the Countess, in their utopia of leisure, art, and beauty; they live in a villa with a terrace that overlooks a garden of crystalline flowers with translucent leaves, gleaming glass-like stems, and crystals at the heart of every bloom. Though, as in all of Ballard’s work (‘Ballardian,’ per contemporary

didactic,

Languages supported: Chinese and Esperanto.

temerity,

perfectible,

undaunted. But at his layover in Paris he meets his match: a surprise