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...Duncan Cambus, are drunk and disoriented. Although Duncan seldom needs a reason for such a condition, in the aftermath of this midsummer night's madness he can offer a good one. The dance has exposed his wife Jean to another meeting with a classmate, the Scottish-born David Crimond, who is now a charismatic and notorious Marxist philosopher. Once before, Jean had left Duncan for Crimond. This morning, she does so again...
Jean's defection confronts Gerard and his friends with a vexing dilemma. Although they fulminate at length against the predatory Crimond, they are bound to him by an old pact. Years earlier, they had formed a committee to subsidize Crimond so that he would be free to write what everyone then thought would be an important book of political philosophy. "We were all Marxists once," Gerard notes, but times and beliefs have changed. Still, their humane, liberal inclinations prevent the companions from going back on their word. As Gerard says, "There's nothing we can do except curse privately that...
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