Giovanni
It is remarkable to read these stories and essays in the era of LMMs. Pretty impressive clairvoyance! Perhaps, after all, it *will* be possible to do in my lifetime what Montaigne did: "long weary of the servitude of the court and of public employments, while still entire, retired to the bosom of the learned virgins, where in calm and freedom from all cares he will spend what little remains of his life, now more than half run out. If the fates permit, he will complete this abode, this sweet ancestral retreat; and he has consecrated it to his freedom, tranquillity, and leisure.”
It is remarkable to read these stories and essays in the era of LMMs. Pretty impressive clairvoyance! Perhaps, after all, it *will* be possible to do in my lifetime what Montaigne did: "long weary of the servitude of the court and of public employments, while still entire, retired to the bosom of the learned virgins, where in calm and freedom from all cares he will spend what little remains of his life, now more than half run out. If the fates permit, he will complete this abode, this sweet ancestral retreat; and he has consecrated it to his freedom, tranquillity, and leisure.”