Yet Sigismund Blondy, being who he was, found Zwelish all the more precious for his touchiness.

NEWYORKER: Lucky Alan

As Sigismund Blondy saw him, Zwelish walked in a fiery aura of loneliness, but Blondy had got inside the penumbra.

NEWYORKER: Lucky Alan

The last of these, Sigismund, presided over the first and perhaps not the least successful European international convention, the Council of Constance (1414-18).

ECONOMIST: Saudi Arabia's oil

Again I felt a paranoiac certainty that in telling his tale Sigismund Blondy had enlisted me in a theatrical invention cast me in a role for the benefit of an unknown audience, perhaps only himself.

NEWYORKER: Lucky Alan

Sigismund Blondy had known Alan Zwelish for several years, in the way of a Manhattan neighbor, repeatedly sighting a compelling face in passing instants as one or the other swerved from the street into the entrances of their buildings, which stood across and askew from each other, or in the same Chase A.T.

NEWYORKER: Lucky Alan