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No English or American novelist has as yet seriously attempted that. There is always room for onemore custard pie. So far from endeavouring to influencethe future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him. Just for that reason he is one of the best escapenovelists we have. This is alittle surprising when one remembers that he was the brother of WinwoodReade. I have neverabandoned it myself, and I know the comfort of it. Nedlies long in the churchyard and Tom lies long in jail.
Theymay do so before long, in which case Dickens will be as out of date asthe cab-horse. As for thecomparison with VOYAGE AU BOUT DE LA NUIT, it is even further from thepoint.
It is probablythe central secret of his popularity. His radicalism is of the vaguest kind, and yet one always knows that itis there.
Luckily, however, Helen is still wearing her watch,which is still keeping Sydney time.
This is alittle surprising when one remembers that he was the brother of WinwoodReade. So is BLACKSPRING, though slightly less so, because tinged in places with nostalgia. His radicalism is of the vaguest kind, and yet one always knows that itis there.
The effect isto break down, at any rate momentarily, the solitude in which the humanbeing lives. Housmans poems had not attracted much notice when they were firstpublished.
And hence the seeming preocupation with indecency and with thedirty-handkerchief sidd of life.
It is notnecessarily the actual face of the writer.
It is worth noticing that TROPIC OF CANCER is not a young mansbook. The intellectual fociof the world were Rome, Moscow, and Berlin.
It is the face of a man ofabout forty, with a small beard and a high colour.
Reade was a man of what one might call penny-encyclopaedic learning. It is a cryof unbearable disgust, a voice from the cesspool.
Reade was a man of what one might call penny-encyclopaedic learning. His radicalism is of the vaguest kind, and yet one always knows that itis there.
It means transferring your roots into shallower soil. Still, theexperiences even of this type overlap fairly widely with those of morenormal people. It is probablythe central secret of his popularity. It is notnecessarily the actual face of the writer.

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