As splendid and enthralling a Life as I have had in my hands for many a day.... wonderful precision and clarity ... Newman's greatness is undeniable ... And then I turned to the Index.... its full, almost heroic, awfulness needs proper savouring, since every time the reader thinks that the nadir has been reached, ... worse is to come.... [paragraphs of undifferentiated page numbers], subheadings as ridiculous as they are otiose … listed only in the order in which they appear in the book …