Jonah: I’m not sure Himmelfarb doesn’t have a point. Keynes’s most famous

apothegm is: “In the long run we’re all dead.” That is not the kind of

thing a family man would say. (Note that, though as gay as a convention of

hairdressers, Keynes did get married to the ballerina Lydia Lopokova. The

ditty current at the time was: “Oh what a union / Of beauty and brains, /

When the lovely Lopokova / Married John Maynard Keynes.” Which, by the way,

is a good way to remember the correct pronunciation of Keynes’s name. The

reasons for the marriage are mysterious, to me at any rate. In the circles

he moved in, Keynes surely had no need for a “beard.” Anyone got the inside

scoop on the Keynes marriage? To save me reading a full biography, I mean.)