Friday, 24 June 2011

The man whose voice had resonated from the tomb of exile

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The man [de Gaulle] whose voice had resonated from the tomb of exile and emboldened its cringing listeners in their darkened rooms had strid...

Baron Haussmann will not be asked to die for his Emperor

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Baron Haussmann will not be asked to die for his Emperor, but he is prepared to sacrifice his reputation, which is besmirched almost every d...
Wednesday, 22 June 2011

One can and may blame the wicked Fourth Crusade

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Though one may bitterly deplore, as I do most fervently, that the Turks ever set foot in Europe, it would be absurd to blame them for the de...
Monday, 20 June 2011

Nobody listens, but it is never turned off

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The instrument [the radio] is nearly always faulty, all these sounds, turned on full blast, are strung in the connecting thread of an unbrok...

Each village was a long solid sheaf of towers

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Each village was a long solid sheaf of towers. There were scores of them climbing into the sky in a rustic metropolis, each tower seeming to...
Monday, 13 June 2011

None of the sensible Ephrussi children would go so far as that

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It was understood that none of the sensible Ephrussi children would go so far as that [suicide]. Melancholy had its place. A  café . It shou...
Friday, 10 June 2011

It was only when there were questions from the floor that the evening became lively

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It was only when there were questions from the floor that the evening became lively. People on both sides of the debate shouted and told sto...