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This is the only quality he shares with Zoditch, the first reader of the Grubov Publishing Company. Zoditch--much against his own inclination--is assigned to read the diary that Chulkturin kept just before his death. As Zoditch reads, the play weaves in and out of his own flights of fancy as well as those of the book he is reading. All are acted out in front of him, with occasional interruptions--as when a fellow tenant manages to get chewed up by the landlady's wolf hounds...
...compromise solution. I was one of those who chose this third way. But it didn't work for me. The censors always managed to bring me to my knees. My anxiety to save at least something from what I had written, so that something would reach the reader, meant only that in the end all mv published writings were neither genuine literature nor utterly contemptible but something in between...
...strong drugs were not necessary for him. But with Talmudic thoroughness, he compiled a most impressive file and bibliography on marijuana, and has since arduously campaigned for its legalization. As a pacifist, he has crusaded for an immediate end to the war in Viet Nam. As a lecturer and reader, he is in constant demand at progressive campuses across the nation, where he is apt to deliver a formal talk in the university auditorium, then forgather with a more committed group for a symposium where he sets a tone of informality by occasionally taking off all his clothes and encouraging...
...Hers is a progress of discarding belief. And since the direction of Martha's growth is never really voluntary, it is not a "quest" at all-it is simply the inevitable path awaiting anyone who has attained for impressive level of self-consciousness and self-awareness. Similarly, if the reader rarely finds Mrs. Lessing's judgments on recent social and intellectual history surprising. I don't think it is because she ever resorts to the hackneyed or the cliched. Rather, we, like Martha, have become supremely conscious of events around us. It is the price one pays for attending...
What finally redeems Wells for the contemporary reader is the shadow of doubt beneath the bravado-the unspoken but ever-present question of young Wells, the born loser: "What if I'm wrong?" When he was only 25, Wells wrote: "Science is a match that man has just got alight . . . It is a curious sensation, now that the preliminary splutter is over and the flame burns up clear, to see his hands lit and just a glimpse of himself and the patch he stands on visible, and around him, in place of all that human comfort and beauty...