Sublime

On en dira du mal, plus tard, de Staline, on le traitera de tyran, on se complaira à dénoncer la terreur qu’il a fait régner, mais pour les gens de la génération d’Édouard il aura été le chef suprême des peuples de l’Union au moment le plus tragique de leur histoire, le vainqueur des nazis, l’homme capable de ce trait, digne de Plutarque : les Alle

The Uilsa story reveals his strong, almost violent emotional side and his ability to tap the Dionysian spirit; the ethics essay reflects his lifelong interest not in epistemology but in ethics. Already his question is not “What can I know?” but “How should I live?”10

Bashō’s Narrow Road to the Deep North and Parkman’s The Oregon Trail (1849) to the great travel books of our own day: the vomiting camels of Thesiger’s Arabian Sands, the muddy Congo paths of Redmond O’Hanlon’s No Mercy, the flitting and plodding of Bruce Chatwin in Patagonia—and, I should add, to a lesser degree, nearly everything in travel that I

He would honor Perkins five years later by dedicating The Old Man and the Sea to him.

Jefferson in his racist generosity allowed that some infusion of European ancestry afforded Africans somewhat greater capacity, but it is quite clear he would have found me, credibly 81 percent African, lacking. I hold instead to what W. E. B. Du Bois said: “I sit with Shakespeare and he winces not. Across the color line I move arm in arm with Balz

The Birth of a Nation,