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Regrets, I've had a few. And so has LeCorbusier

I spent the weekend in a house full of old books. One of them was the Fiftieth Anniversary Report of Harvard's Class of 1922, where I found this remarkable statement from Hartford lawyer/art-collector Joseph Louis Shulman:

To allow myself two regrets, one is that my wife has not been with me the past ten years, knowing as I do what a zest she had for living and the heroic fight she made during her last five years of illness. The other is that when I spent a day in Paris with LeCorbusier shortly before he drowned while swimming alone in the Mediterranean, I did not speak out more forcibly to him that he should have a valet companion in addition to his housekeeper.

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