Almost as little is known of Apelles' life as of his art.
And this is because Foster sees Yeats's contradictions as signs of life, as of a piece with the conflicting currents of his imaginative life.
Texting, Facebook and the internet generally play as large a part in O'Doherty's life as of course they do in most people's, but I can think of few comedians who have talked so well about them.
But the most important development in his early 50s was his marriage to a young wife: George Hyde-Lees, the hero of this Life as of most accounts of Yeats's career.
Although I originally considered the Beatles a pale imitation of the real thing, they eventually became part of the soundtrack of my life, as of so many others of my generation.
A joint funeral yesterday for two brothers from Long Island -- one a New York City firefighter and the other a city police officer, both killed in the World Trade Center disaster -- was as much a celebration of their lust for life as of their heroic deeds.
