Fish out of water

Robert Dawidoff

  • The Works of George Santayana. Vol. I: Persons and Places edited by William Holzberger and Herman Saatkamp
    MIT, 761 pp, £24.95, March 1987, ISBN 0 262 19238 1
  • George Santayana: A Biography by John McCormick
    Knopf, 612 pp, $30.00, August 1988, ISBN 0 394 51037 2

George Santayana made himself anything but plain in his writings. Even when he was memorably, aphoristically direct, he toyed with the contrary, the piquing, the enigmatic, the confounding, and got into the habit of regarding even his own obscurity as an emblem of his integrity, as his boast. He meant it to be impossible to lay a glove on him.

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