Word: book
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...COLD GARRET WRITE BAD VERSE AND DRINK YELLOW WINE WHEN I'M OLD WOULD RATHER TRAVEL A LOT DOING ODD JOBS THAN BE A DEPENDABLE INGENUE BUT I LOVE THE THEATRE ANYWHERE WON'T MAKE MUCH MONEY BUT MAYBE I'LL WRITE STOP THE UNIVERSE AROUND US A GRAND BOOK A FAREWELL TO ARMS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL NOVEL THINK THE MOTION PICTURE A GRAND MEDIUM FOR ART PRODUCING THE MOST COLOSSALLY MORONIC RESULTS STOP MY MOTHER AND FATHER FIGURED MOST SPECTACULARLY IN THIS STORY WHEN. . . ." (Prior to her birth...
...with Miss Cooper, but he is practical rather than masterful, and when his proposition of a palm-studded island for her, and a pig for every man of the crew, is rejected, he is gentlemanly enough to withdraw. In fact, there is a generally twentieth-century atmosphere about the book that precludes the possibilities of stirring adventure. The reader acquires this contemporary angle, and asks no more from the pleasant story that it offers...
...bucket and a rope scamper and talk worldly wisdom in a naive accent. And if you would find the love affairs of "The Seaweed and the Cuckoo-Clock" amusing and enlightening you will proclaim "Fables" an important piece of workmanship. There is no doubt that this little book is very much the thing for the right people...
...authors. Perhaps it is mere layman's thickheadedness that makes one regard "falsehood and deception" as somewhat inconsistent with the highest moral aims. Perhaps it is an indication of profligacy, if one thinks the methods employed in dogging a bookseller until he sells to a supposedly responsible buyer a book starred on the Boston List of Genuine Literature That You Mustn't Read. And doubtless one is being a free-thinker, if he feels that the system of Jesuit double-meanings is getting a little out-dated...
...there is another, a pitiful possibility. Can it be that the Book Squad of the Watch and Ward feel harsh twinges of conscience at being obliged to use "falsehood and deception" in their glorious work? Can it be that the stern motto "The end justifies the means" only hides spirits saddened by the quality of those means? If so, it is time for some kind person to take the blindfold from the eyes of the self-made martyrs, and to instruct them, gently, that no one wants to suffer. Then, with the contentment of those who have done their work...