Word: brynhild
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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...BRYNHILD OR THE SHOW OF THINGS- H., G. Wells-Scribner...
Optimistic, like nearly all of H. G. Wells's books, Brynhild or The Show of Things also encouraged Wellsians by its age-belying vigor. The story of a clever man's disintegration and an honest woman's fulfillment, it is also a Wellsian fable, told without his usual blackboard charts and magic-lantern slides, of the human search for reality...
...young wife with an eye that pierced pretense. An unflattering news picture of himself set Palace pondering nervously on what people really thought about him. His considered conclusion: that every public figure should create or control the effigy of himself he showed to the world. Because he felt that Brynhild, his wife, might take a less than sympathetic view, he planned his ensuing publicity campaign in secret, with such conscience-bolstering sentiments as: "No human beings have ever really seen themselves. . . . They pose and act. They tell stories about themselves to other people. Life is a battle of make-believe...
Wellsians have frequently exclaimed that the world lost a satirist when Author Wells turned popular pamphleteer. In Brynhild he gives them further matter for exclamation, in such thumbnail flicks as these: "His normal expression was one of patient self-confidence, varied by lapses into great mobility when he was exercised by a business suggestion or anxious to be effective. Then he gesticulated, brought his face nearer to his interlocutor and spat slightly as he became emphatic. Finally he would wipe himself up so to speak and become suddenly immobile again, with his face interrogative and a little askew...
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