Sublime

More a friend to his authors than a taskmaster, he aided them in every way. He helped them structure their books, if help was needed; thought up titles, invented plots; he served as psychoanalyst, lovelorn adviser, marriage counselor, career manager, money-lender. Few editors before him had done so much work on manuscripts, yet he was always faithf

Mince, élégant, affectionnant à la manière américaine des cols amidonnés blancs sur des chemises à fines rayures, bon vivant, volontiers gastronome, amateur de londrès et de cocktails, fréquentant les bars anglais et se frottant volontiers au Tout-Paris, il affichait des idées avancées qu’il soutenait avec juste ce qu’il fallait de condescendance e

He tells us stories. He is sympathetic, charming. But his gestures, offering me a glass of wine or a cigarette, are clothed in arrogance, in the arrogant humility of the East.

Paris is Burning

They lived with God, he thought, as if they had a lodger upstairs who’d bang on the floor with a broom if they ever made a noise.

He was the voice in England of this humane intoxication and expansion, this encouraging of anybody to be anything. His best books are a carnival of liberty,

Comme en bien d'autres cas, les prétendus homosexuels avaient joué un rôle de modèle pour le reste de la société, pensait encore Bruno. Lui-même, par exemple, avait quarante-deux ans ; désirait-il pour autant les femmes de son âge ? En aucune façon. Par contre, pour une petite chatte enrobée dans une mini-jupe, il se sentait encore prêt à aller jus

He heard later indirectly that the tutor had grown a moustache and gone out to Australia.

Morris Schutt is stumbling towards a discovery of himself, attempting to understand how one should live the best life.