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...complete file of Defoe's Review, a weekly, biweekly and triweekly newspaper of opinion which he wrote singlehanded between 1704 and 1713. Before becoming a newspaperman at 45, Defoe had been a butcher, hosiery factor, wine importer, government lottery agent, tile manufacturer, South Sea speculator, bankrupt and convict. In 1703 he spent three days in the stocks (see cut) for publishing an annoying political pamphlet. Between jail terms he plumped mightily for freedom of the press, took secret cash handouts from ministers of all parties, acted as informer to governments and Kings...
Last week in Honolulu, a court martial sentenced Ben Fleigelmann to five years of hard labor at Governors Island, N. Y. From that fortified dot in New York Harbor, Convict Fleigelmann will be able to see Brooklyn with ease...
...front-men threatened to kill Prosecutor Fennelly and then commit suicide. He was sent to the psychopathic ward of Bellevue Hospital. Last week Promoter Bob was sent to jail for seven years. He had lost his touch. It took the jury only two and a half hours to convict...
When Faulkner finished the convict's story, however, he felt that it was incomplete. He therefore wrote another novel and inserted the chapters between chapters of the convict's tale. This second novel tells of a young New Orleans doctor who runs off with another man's wife. When she becomes pregnant he performs an abortion, as a result of which she dies and he is jailed for life...
This story reverses that of the convict-the doctor, too, is trying to erect barriers against nature-and the sick, squalid, miserable sequence of events he goes through contrasts with the nightmarish but still exhilarating adventures of the convict. It does not come off: the doctor and his mistress are not credible characters, the prose is turgid and confusing. But not even careless writing can weaken the cumulative effect of Faulkner's imaginative fertility, the boldness and originality of his themes...