Nero Wolfe

[Wolfe] nodded. “You’re right.” He switched the reading light on and picked up the book he was just starting, Science: The Glorious Entertainment, by Jacques Barzun. [Discussion on automation follows.]
— Rex Stout, A Right to Die, 1964, 126.

See also Excerpts from A Right to Die.

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“William James Explains U.S. Middle East Policy” is a quotation from Barzun’s A Stroll with William James.