John Singer Sargent House and Garden painting

John Singer Sargent House and Garden paintingJohn Singer Sargent Girl Fishing paintingJohn Singer Sargent Dorothy Barnard painting
. Moreover, the machine declared itself able and ready (with the aid of "analogue facilities" and a sophistication dismaying at least to a poor humanist like myself) to assemble, collate, and edit this material, interpolate all verifiable data from other sources such as the memoirs then in hand, recompose the whole into a coherent narrative from the Grand Tutor's point of view, and "read it out" in an elegant form on its automatic printers! The son, as disinclined to as the father but apparently commanding some authority agreed, and in the face of opposition from certain "Gilesians" as well as "anti-Gilesians," the made good its promise. After several false starts and program adjustments it produced a first-person chronicle teachings of the Grand Tutor, a text so faithful to the best evidence and polished in its execution that young Stoker needed only to "change a date or a place-name here and there," as he vowed, to call it finished.
The great test came, he told me, when he took the manuscript to one Peter Greene, an early student of Giles's, now past sixty and the strongest critic of the "WES