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While I don't care for anyone describing chess i do find Steiner on Anthony Blunt and by extension Poussin beyond the Sublime.

I searched our house for four days looking for this elusive wonder.

“The simple yet appalling fact is that we have very little solid evidence that literary studies do very much to enrich or stabilize moral perception, that they humanize.... What is worse, a certain body of evidence points the other way. When barbarism came to twentieth-century Europe, the arts faculties in more than one university offered very little moral resistance, and this is not a trivial or moral accident.”

Read Steiner if for nothing but his concluding sentences. He summarizes, illuminates, and expands a paragraph in a few short words that punch like typewriter hammers.