And as Sophocles stated no less germanely, "The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves."

And also, more germanely, the 14- and 15-year-olds who had apparently been excused from school to attend a noon showing at the local multiplex.

In the preface of The Monuments and Inscriptions of Caracol, Belize, William Coe and Christopher Jones praise Satterthwaite as a man of "limitless generosity, and, more germanely, his ingrained need to recognize each man's contribution".

Mr. Klein's weariness, I suspect, derives from struggling to shift the conversation about Modigliani away from this tawdry and irresistible litany of the artist's debauched biography - what he calls the Modigliani myth - toward other issues that speak more germanely to the work.