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...with their niggardly life in a little Cheltenham shop, so eager to mix with chieftains in the wilds of South America, that one fine morning he ran away from home. Though he never got to South America he encountered plenty of wild characters. Some of them: the Cheeser, Ishmael-like religious fanatic; Kelly, the Brother of the Universal Spirit; Col. Harrison, who ran a New Jerusalem for tramps, partly because he felt like it, partly to irritate his wife; Lily, a high-class harlot, who became Jack's idealized light-o'-love; the London hermit who lived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Picaresque | 1/22/1934 | See Source »

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