Word: firbankian
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...land of languor and burning kisses, and contains the memorable exclamation (made, of course, by a female character): "If I live to be forty, it was a moment I shall never forget." ¶ Prancing Nigger (1925), which has an all-colored cast, is laid in the region of a Firbankian Haiti. It tells how members of a backwoods family at last achieve their dearest ambition-to gate-crash high society in Cuna-Cuna City. Under its dancing, smiling surface run strong undercurrents of human sadness and disillusion. It is Firbank at his best. ¶Concerning the Eccentricities of Cardinal Pirelli...
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