Word: compressional
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The Significance. Standing before this bear-cage in the literary zoo we say: What an enormous creature! How shaggy and powerful! How he lumbers about, yet they say a grizzly can outrun a horse! And when we have gazed our fill, we say: What a dirty, littered cage! An unkempt...
The Significance. This is no biography, no historical novel. It has no dates, no footnotes, no bibliography. It is a series of fierce impressions, summing into 150 small pages the impression of a man's life. It has terrific compression and impact. An example from the text:
TIME is their definite compression.
The Critics. Dr. Henry Seidel Canby, of The Literary Review, calls Faint Perfume " one of the interesting books in the history of American fiction." Heywood Broun remarks in The New York World: "We do not know any modern novelist who has achieved such admirable compression." Other commentators have protested at...
The flint and steel which were used by our ancestors until recently for fire-making are but a degree removed from the flint and from pyrites, their immediate predecessor, which were common among the northern peoples of America, and also in Europe in ancient times. The Malay tribes, however, long...