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Solitary Solution. The book reports the life stories of two young drifters, Jack Kaspan and Jane Gellson. Kaspan recalls his months as a P.W. in Germany, where at first he tried desperately to escape. But he soon discovered that the only meaningful area of existence is man's inner, inviolate consciousness, in which the pleasures of self-absorption are unbounded. Subjected to six months' solitary confinement because of an early attempt to escape, Kaspan learned to live so completely in his interior self-where he "could reach frontiers of consciousness beyond the outermost limits of contemporary ideas"-that...
Joint Bondage. Jane Gellson did not withdraw into herself; she lived by the usual patterns of society. As a result, she was sucked into increasingly impossible situations. A sensitive young man, Bernard Meddow, fell in love with her, attached himself to her like a pathetic puppy, and all she could offer him was a mild pity. For how could she tell this conventional young Englishman that she was already secretly married to a German whose whereabouts were unknown? Meddow, Jane and her husband all suffered because of the inevitable hurts of human dependence; each was an innocent victim...