Enid Starkie’s Flaubert
If some of the above seems hollow or light, I must admit compression; the depth of disgrace apportioned to Flaubert by his noisome niece has been relentlessly censored by the woman herself, and others since.
Constable and Fisher
John Constable held a cute but courtly correspondence with Archdeacon John Fisher for twenty odd years. Fisher was an avid patron, friend and mentor through several of Constable’s artistic and personal tribulations. The header image of ‘The White Horse’ was bought by Fisher while Constable was still unpopular in England and reluctantly loaned to prescient European organisations who saw the genius in Constable’s work.
Why not philosophy?
There are certain cynics (although I’ve never met a real one) who deride philosophy as pointless vanity, an idle abstraction has no practical end; yet without it there would be no social progress, no developmental science, no art, economics or coming culture. So they might have a point… looking back and thinking ahead?