vatic

He wrote ceaselessly, torrentially, and as he churned away he easily became vatic, windy, merely reckless where he had once been adventurous.

It is also, in its more intimate scenes, so funny and argumentative, so vatic, so sharp and so unconcerned with gay respectability that you can see a straight line leading back to “The Boys in the Band.”

Whitman’s first installment strikes a vatic, exclamatory note: “Manly health! Is there not a kind of charm — a fascinating magic in the words?” he writes, before outlining the path to “a perfect body, a perfect blood.”

But my days in Sils-Maria being finite, and my chances of a return visit being small, I eventually retreated to the Waldhaus lounge to read the philosopher’s vatic words in English while gazing at the mountains.

Just as one ought to be suspicious of the word "proper" when hoarsely brayed from the glistening lips of Cameron, one ought to be suspicious of it on a menu: is it anything more than a vatic invocation of old-school purity?