Word: dishonorables
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...wound up an OSS operative in the French resistance. In a novel given to symbolism, his chosen code name tells much of the man and the book. It is "Dante" -the man who came back from Hell. Humes, no Virgil, conducts his Dante through the small hells of war, dishonor, and the loss of love. Hell, he suggests, is an endless business, but paradoxically, Humes makes it an interesting one, and suggests at the end that his readers are about to take up grazing rights in hell's burned pastures...
...Duke of Marlborough, he mocked: "The fiancé of Miss Vanderbilt is descended...through a long line of titled cuckolds and shameless pimps, and now stands on the ragged edge of poverty, bartering to parvenus for bread an empty dukedom bought with a female relative's dishonor." Brann scoffed at James Whitcomb Riley, "the poetical ass with the three-story name," railed at a clergyman-critic as a "monstrous bag of fetid wind," adding: "The man who can find intellectual food in [his] sermons could acquire a case of delirium tremens by drinking the froth...
...have little to do with any of these explanations. He refuses to see history in terms of abstract ideas, cycles or forces. He sees it in terms of men-weak or strong, good or bad. wise or stupid, to be judged by such quaint values as honor and courage, dishonor and cowardice...
...turns against God as the guilty one, and sentences him to experience for himself the agony of a D.P., "homeless, hungry, thirsty, terrified of death," surrounded by misery and sickness, suffering even the death of his own child, and dying at last himself in pain and dishonor. The human judge duly condemns God "to the hellish journey of being a man," and the three Archangels leave to carry out the sentence...
...rebuttal Wilhelm admitted that men go out with women who choose dishonor, but he added that "they don't marry them...