One hundred and thirty-four patients (34.5 %) had sporadic seizures (few episodes per year), 132 (34.0 %) had been seizure-free for at least two years at the interview while 119 (30.7 %) had monthly/daily or multidaily seizures (in three cases frequency could not be assessed).

They might acknowledge that such practicalities are necessary to sustain life itself, but they would immediately add that culture gives life a value beyond the scope of the merely practical.

Warning: High cube

“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera,[…]the speed-mad fugitives from the furies of ennui, the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis, […] !”