The agreeable eye

an eudæmonistarchives

More specifically concerning: short stories

Crambe repetita (5)

15 February 2004, around 8.05.

Henry James, Madame de Mauves.

A Sudden Liberating Thought

23 March 2004, around 19.09.

with no sudden crisis of conscience

of an age

21 February 2010, around 6.32.

I find nothing objectionable in the fact that the young scholar, as may be observed even in my retelling, was flirting a bit with erudition. Later on, scholars began to flirt with illiteracy and achieved in this regard a suspiciously natural effect. —Fazil Iskander, ’The Story of the Prayer Tree’ (Sandro of Chegem, p. 162) […]

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