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... ture express the most recent stages of the battle . Both deal principally with the rela- tions of men to men , for the reason that the confusion in the relations between the two sexes has its counterpart in the confusion inside the ...
... ture express the most recent stages of the battle . Both deal principally with the rela- tions of men to men , for the reason that the confusion in the relations between the two sexes has its counterpart in the confusion inside the ...
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... ture and Kangaroo have we gotten books new - evident of the author's genius . But they make it freshly plain . The delightfully mock- ing manner of the essays half - covers a giant's imaginative vision focussed on the American continent ...
... ture and Kangaroo have we gotten books new - evident of the author's genius . But they make it freshly plain . The delightfully mock- ing manner of the essays half - covers a giant's imaginative vision focussed on the American continent ...
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... ture of his bedroom when he dozed , not the objects themselves but the trappings of rooms long since inhabited by him and long since quit . In that swooning moment it would be the room of a country - house , occupied in boyhood , that ...
... ture of his bedroom when he dozed , not the objects themselves but the trappings of rooms long since inhabited by him and long since quit . In that swooning moment it would be the room of a country - house , occupied in boyhood , that ...
Page 196
... ture started by the prose . Open Tulips and Chimneys at any page , and somewhere upon that page there will be traces , oftentimes thrilling ones , of an inner musical state play- ing exuberantly with the materials of life . The swift ...
... ture started by the prose . Open Tulips and Chimneys at any page , and somewhere upon that page there will be traces , oftentimes thrilling ones , of an inner musical state play- ing exuberantly with the materials of life . The swift ...
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... ture and poignant and worthy of fine settings . Not a contemporary American senses as thoroughly in every fiber the tempo of privi- leged post - adolescent America . Of that life , in all its great hardness and equally curious softness ...
... ture and poignant and worthy of fine settings . Not a contemporary American senses as thoroughly in every fiber the tempo of privi- leged post - adolescent America . Of that life , in all its great hardness and equally curious softness ...
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Page 230 - The sky, lazily disdaining to pursue The setting sun, too indolent to hold A lengthened tournament for flashing gold, Passively darkens for night's barbecue, A feast of moon and men and barking hounds, An orgy for some genius of the South With blood-hot eyes and cane-lipped scented mouth, Surprised in making folk-songs from soul sounds. The sawmill blows its whistle, buzz-saws stop, And silence breaks the bud of knoll and hill, Soft settling pollen where plowed lands fulfill Their early promise of...
Page 152 - Chieftain Iffucan of Azcan in caftan Of tan with henna hackles, halt! Damned universal cock, as if the sun Was blackamoor to bear your blazing tail. Fat! Fat! Fat! Fat! I am the personal. Your world is you. I am my world. You ten-foot poet among inchlings. Fat! Begone! An inchling bristles in these pines, Bristles, and points their Appalachian tangs, And fears not portly...
Page 216 - Not a contemporary American senses as thoroughly in every fiber the tempo of privileged post-adolescent America. Of that life, in all its hardness and equally curious softness, its external clatter, movement and boldness, he is a part; and what he writes reflects the environment not so much in its superficial aspects as in its pitch and beat.
Page 165 - queen full of jewels' and the beau with the muff, from the gilt coach shaped like a perfume-bottle, to the conjunction of the Monongahela and the Allegheny, and the scholastic philosophy of the wilderness to combat which one must stand outside and laugh since to go in is to be lost.
Page 223 - Fitzgerald himself for him to see it sustainedly against the universe. Its values obtain too strongly over him, and for that reason he cannot set them against those of high civilization, and calmly judge them so. Hence, wanting philosophy, and a little overeager like the rest of America to arrive without having really sweated, he falls victim to the favorite delusions of the society of which he is a part, tends to indulge it in its dreams of grandeur, and misses the fine flower of pathos. He seems...
Page 151 - The playing of a Chinese orchestra. On a gong a bonze creates a copper din. The most amazing cacophony amid dissolving labials and silkiest sibilants. Quirks, booms, whistles, quavers. Lord, what instruments has he there? Small muffled drums? Plucked wires? The falsetto of an ecstatic eunuch? Upon deliberate examination it appears Stevens...
Page 216 - BVD's after a bath running his hand down his naked skin in indolent satisfaction; the vignette of two bucks from a pump-and-slipper dance throwing hash by the handful around Childs' at six AM Not another has gotten flashes from the psyches of the golden young intimate as those which amaze throughout The Beautiful and Damned. And not another has fixed as mercilessly the quality of brutishness, of dull indirection and degraded sensibility running through American lif e of the hour.
Page 33 - Or was it that, being as weak of sight as he was shy of mind, he drew less pleasure from the reflection of the glowing sensible world through the prism of a language manycoloured and richly storied than from the contemplation of an inner world of individual emotions mirrored perfectly in a lucid supple periodic prose.
Page 168 - The barnacles which encrust the side of the wave, cannot hide there for the submerged shafts of the sun, split like spun glass, move themselves with spotlight swiftness into the crevices — in and out, illuminating the turquoise sea of bodies.
Page 222 - The world of his subject matter is still too much within Fitzgerald himself for him to see it sustainedly against the universe. Its values obtain too strongly over him, and for that reason he cannot set them against those of high civilization and calmly judge them so. Hence, wanting philosophy, and a little overeager like the rest of America to arrive without having...