The most mouth-watering food catalogue of all, the Pfaelzer Collection, is well named, considering the diamantine prices of the super cuts of meat it purveys.
Yet at his best Hesse writes with diamantine claritynot about the psychological self in current fashion, but about the metaphysical self of traditional contemplation.
This aristocratic Danish author of superior Gothic romances has fashioned a nonfictional still life, elegiac in mood, diamantine in craft, of her past as a coffee planter in .