52

pervades much of the response to the accidents of life

p 21

... this evocation of an older consciousness - now mostly lost to us but still recognizable, in some sense still remembered - that offers a degree of relief from the burdens of personal choice and relentless self- assessment... specified activities and duties are rigidly assigned.

p 21 2-20-82

Occasionally, one must be unworthy, simply in order to be able to continue living. -Jung

Footle v. obscure origin - slang

To talk or act foolishly, to trifle, potter- twaddle, "rot" - adj. - paltry, trifling

First printed use 1892

Brideshead Revisited p 40

He just lives alone in London with no friends, and footles about collecting things.

53

"Well limits are precisely what I need and am looking for above all in everything I compose. The limits generate the form."

p. 31 - 5.23.82

Stravinsky - from letter review NYT Book Review

The Unhappy Medium - Rosen And Zerner in NYR of B

May 27, 1982 - review of Thomas Couture by Albert Boime - p 50

quote from Léon Rosenthal's Du Romantisme au Realisme - 1914.

"The images must present a subject. This primacy of the subject is the most certain sign of the 'juste milieu's' (middle of the road) inferiority. Painting for them is only a medium; The interest of the picture does not depend on its aesthetic merit, but on the scene represented; the painter must be a clever dramatist, a good costume designer, an adroit stage director... the success is assured if he knows how to find the anecdotal side of the grandest event; at least, he must not forget to lighten the weight of a serious drama by