we are amazed by forked flashes of wisdom

The second puzzle was this: why were the vast rectangles between the encircling columns at ground level blank? How could any art patron have left them bare? When I saw them, they were painted the palest rose-orange, not unlike the Sateen Dura-Luxe shade yclept Maui Eventide.

He penned voluminous epistles, to complain of a trivial oversight in her otherwise irreproachable system of philanthropy, or to convey a father's acknowledgments for the soul-elevating teachings of which his beloved offspring were accipients; and when they were unnoticed, his visits were frequent.

a paleaceous receptacle