Paul was also themasterof playing down hisown achievements, be it his boxing exploits, his archaeological knowledge or the fact that he became a very successful author.
Beyond his predecessors, Hals was the first virtuoso ofthe visible brushstroke, but no other Old Master seems to have made art so little for hisown fulfillment.
" Hank Greenberg, you should know, "was not masterofhisown destiny, " though he would "bask in the glory ofhis return" to baseball as the story ofhis first marriage "crackled over the wires and dominated the front pages of Detroit's newspapers.