Activity

a graduate student launched on an encomium of times past

Our responses to crises display a certain somnambular automatism.

Our arts and letters are, arguably, those of epigones.

the plangent but self-mocking lilt

A litote, as we find it persistently in the greatest of all French writers--in Racine--is the tightly, densely concentrated expression of some central immensity, or even enormity, in human recognitions and emotions.