Word: manichaean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among the six stories in this book are a study of the dead hand of the past on a living person; a study of the Manichaean heresy (the notion that the Devil is as powerful as God and that they struggle for supremacy); the galloping putrefaction of American letters; the galloping putrefaction of moral and political values. Author Wilson has also chosen to write literally (and incidentally) about sexual intercourse. As a result, Memoirs of Hecate* County will probably be hailed as an event in gaminess...