“I had a wonderful time—but this was not it,” is what I contemplated, then discarded, saying to the lady who had hosted the "€˜hat-party"€™. The lady in question was Kristina Szekely, the equivalent of Majorca's Matthias ...

The longer we postpone things we must do, the harder it becomes to accomplish them, don"€™t you think? Take letters: guilt at not having written them compounds the delay"€“thus the guilt"€“until you convince yourself that, being no longer ...

—-Forgive me for interrupting, the little man said, but I thought I had read his oeuvre complete and suddenly I see a title unknown to me. Ah, I said with contrived good grace (only a few pages to go), that may be because this novella's only ...