Word: dercum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...discover it, Dr. Francis Xavier Dercum, President of the American Philosophical Society, last week set bravely forth. Assisting him are 41 men, each and every one high on the honor roll of U. S. savants...
...violent tragedy causes to be brought forth from his rage and his despair the question. "why?"--"This 'why' remained standing before him like a pillar, cleaving the distant fog, and toward that pillar he would have to wander involuntarily and almost unconsciously." Laudin comes into contact with Louise Dercum, a famous actres, in whose personality seems to be mirrored all life; through her he attempts to grasp an answer to this "Why," but in the end finds only unconsciousness and nothingness. He goes home. On the other side of a door is his wife Pia, who had become absorbed...
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