RIP Michael Brooks

How extraordinarily decent and, in the Latin sense, sweet and decorous, is correct-hearted young Mr. Kulinski's funeral speech for his fallen colleague. Amazing to see this ancient, noble art, of dealing verbally with death and loss, reborn in one so young. So spake the Cherub....

Apart from which, the death, if you please, of Michael Brooks--whose quality you may judge by the great number of top-notch people (¿¡Lula da Silva!?) who have loved and who now mourn him--is a very big deal.