An Adventure With a Genius; Recollections of Joseph Pulitzer
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What disturbed me was that his blind- ness, his ill health, and his suffering had united to these traits an intense excitability and a morbid nervousness. My first impulse was to attribute his capriciousness to a weakening of his brain power; but I could not reconcile this view with the vigor of his thought, with the clear- ness of his expression, with the amplitude of his knowledge, with the scope of his mem- ory as they had been disclosed the previous night in his conversation with Paterson. ...No, the fact was that I had not found the key to his motives, the cipher running through the artificial confusion of his ac- tions. I could not foresee the issue of the ad- venture. In the meantime, however, the yacht was a comfortable home, the Cote d'Azur was a new field of observation, J. P. and his secretaries were extremely interest- ing, the honorarium was accumulating stead- ily, and in the background Barbados still JOSEPH PULITZER 73 slept in the sunshine, an emerald in a sapph- ire sea.
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