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What I was referring to, I later realised, was the erotic picaresque of my early adulthood

watched her stolid figure cross the boulevard towards the cafes.

It was old enough to have a louche coolness but new enough to offer modernity and comfort without being intimidating.

The very rigour of his environmental and mechanical materialism meant that he must either despair or proclaim a secular chiliasm.

The problem was to indoctrinate the youth in ‘habits of attention, celerity, and order’.