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City & Country. At the time, Muñoz considered himself a Socialist; as early as 1920 he had joined the Puerto Rican Socialist Party which, by & large, was a collection of sincere but ineffective labor reformers. When, to his disgust, its leaders tied themselves up in a coalition with the rival Unionists and the Republicans, Muñoz switched to the new Liberal Party. He worked in it until 1938, when he broke with the party leadership and pulled out, taking many of the most vigorous workers with him. Telling his followers that he was sick of politicos and city...
Sweaty Me. The novel is in the form of a diary kept by a solitary scholar in 1932 in a French provincial town. Starting with mild expressions of disgust at existence, the entries run a truly resourceful gamut of the grotesque, the dispiriting, and the desperate. There is not a human being in the book who is not in some way loathsome, and the hyperconsciousness of the diarist soon gets to the point of seeing everything in a light both ghastly and obscene. One of Novelist Sartre's revelations...
...suppress it, nor can I suppress the rest of my body, the sweaty warmth which soils my shirt . . . If I exist, it is because I am horrified at existing. I am the one who pulls myself from the nothingness to which I aspire: the hatred, the disgust of existing...
Medina looked down in disgust. "I have noticed several times," he said, "that when papers are handed to me here that you lawyers would then have it noted that I did or did not read them and how long I took to read." He didn't believe, he added, that Isserman could tell about such details from where...
...Signature is a story called "A Pinch in Time." An American riding in a Swiss railway carriage engages in conversation with the young lady seated opposite him. He hopes the stale cigar smoke left in the compartment by a previous passenger will not offend her. She mentions her disgust for men who try to pick her up; the American says nothing, but lights a discarded cigar butt and puffs furiously in her face. That's all there is to it; neat, and very effective...