“Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of frenzy into an abyss. But they survive, they come to the surface again. And they develop a routine of the abyss: ‘It’s four o’clock…At five I have my abyss.'”
Colette, The Pure and the Impure
Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
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