Old books, obsolete pandects, wormholed commentaries

preclassical Greek and Mediterranean cosmogony

chapters on ecclestiastical imbroglios

Both possible titles are mooted in a letter

One can read about it in those louche tomes

of bishopric and cabinet

That there was within Kraus a jealously guarded arcadia--a shy, tensed love of certain Bohemian and Alpine retreats--is certain.

In front of Hitler, an anti-master of the word more ruthless than he was--an actor, mountebank, declaimer more mesmerizing--Kraus fell silent.

an instrument wholly fitted to its excoriating purpose

Austria's unctuous burial of its thoroughly Nazi past