One has to be able to enjoy a dis-
crimination notwithstanding a wave
of popular feeling these days, for
the proposition that anything good
is good anywhere. The sea and wine
share a context in common, called,
the air, in which an inhalation of
the one is irreconcilable with the
same gesture toward the other. The
complication imposed on breathing,
then, is not the least of the con-
siderations to be invoked in favor
of keeping them apart. They antag-
onize each other in numerous other
ways, with the deck heavily stack-
ed in favor of the sea, but I need
cite only one more to satisfy this
observation. The quality of solit-
ude with the one is so immeasurab-
ly finer than with the other, that
it would never occur to us to say,
I don't care for the sea with wine . .
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