Le Feu Follet's Letter

A Myriad of Gifts for the Ages.

Focus on the Memorial of Saint Helena

"Everything I know, I learned abroad. It is only there that one becomes accustomed to looking at things from a higher perspective. I am convinced that here I would never have had the courage for this first idea; it would have been smothered before it could even begin to grow. But thanks to God, when I brought it here, everything was already ripe, and all they could do was throw a wrench into the works." Zweig, The World of Yesterday

And writers Behind & in Front of the Lens.

Not a day over a hundred!

"In a portrait, I seek the silence of someone."– Henri Cartier-Bresson

Between one's own genius.

... and other textual diseases.

"Hasten slowly, and without losing heart, put your work twenty times upon the anvil; polish it ceaselessly, and re-polish it; sometimes add, and often erase."