Mark Helprin Quote
Somewhat unnerved by what he felt were Germanic currents in a man whom he had taken to be just an Italian intellectual who ate flowers, Strassnitzky cautiously argued that the records are secret, part of the War Office. How do you expect to match the number with the man? I haven't the slightest idea, Alessandro said, almost arrogantly, but God is directly in charge of all things relating to life and death. That I've learned in the war. You think God is going to get you the operations records of the Austrian army? I don't know, but if He were, wouldn't you imagine that the first thing He'd do would be to have me conveyed to Vienna?
Mark Helprin
Somewhat unnerved by what he felt were Germanic currents in a man whom he had taken to be just an Italian intellectual who ate flowers, Strassnitzky cautiously argued that the records are secret, part of the War Office. How do you expect to match the number with the man? I haven't the slightest idea, Alessandro said, almost arrogantly, but God is directly in charge of all things relating to life and death. That I've learned in the war. You think God is going to get you the operations records of the Austrian army? I don't know, but if He were, wouldn't you imagine that the first thing He'd do would be to have me conveyed to Vienna?
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Mark Helprin (Hebrew: מארק הלפרין; born June 28, 1947) is an American-Israeli novelist, journalist, conservative commentator, Senior Fellow of the Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy, Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, and Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. While Helprin's fictional works straddle a number of disparate genres and styles, he has stated that he "belongs to no literary school, movement, tendency, or trend".