“His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.”
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Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.
Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.