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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...mirth and an ingrained cosmic uncertainty committed him to the unimportance of being earnest. D. H. Lawrence struck Max as a lunatic. He cheerfully confessed to Behrman that Freud was beyond him and added reflectively, "They were a tense and peculiar family, the Oedipuses, weren't they?" Virginia Woolf's stream-of-consciousness technique irritated him: "All of us have a stream of consciousness; we are never without it-the most ordinary and the most gifted. And through that stream flows much that is banal, tedious, nasty, insufferable, irrelevant. But some of us have the taste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Twilight of a Dandy | 10/24/1960 | See Source »

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