Between 1967 and 1997, George Steiner wrote more than 130 pieces on a great range of topics for The essence of Steiners magicI dont really know what else to call ithas been his singular ability to articulate and elucidate, through nuance, allusion, and a peerless precision of language, those Phoebus-rays of wisdom that lie beyond wisdom and almost always elude words. [He] seems to know most things worth knowing and is acutely perceptive and energetically serious about them all. A remarkably powerful writer. A keenly discriminating literary mind. An education in a portmanteau:
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