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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strictly temperance dinner, goes to Africa hunting pterodactyls. He encounters something big and snaky that might as well be a pterodactyl as anything else and shoots it, whereupon it sinks to the bottom of the river. Uncle Bliss catches malaria and goes home without it to England. He doesn't even die, after the reader is expecting it impatiently, so that the nice English family in the story can solve their financial difficulties with his money. And the head of the nice family, after refusing to be Uncle Bliss' English agent (for he is Anglo-Saxon and independent) comes home...
...which might lead to another sermon or disquisition or monologue on the art of drawing a crowd on Harvard Square. Now up in Vermont where I come from they wouldn't collect to see a man cat eggs. There is a subtle sanity about the country which doesn't show itself so much in the big cities like Cambridge...
Repertory--"The Circle", by Somerset Maugham, at 8.15. Like a dog chasing its tail, this doesn't get anywhere...
Before his marriage had come the curious episode of his supervision of the Nevada State's Prison, full of the toughest men that lived. He talked to them of ideals. They mocked. He abolished the lockstep. They did not object. He made the prison clean ("It doesn't cost the state anything to be clean," said he). The rough men smiled. He put them out on the honor system to work on the roads for pay. One convict ran away. The convicts cheered, for their chance had come. They asked for parole to chase the offender. Raymond...
Indeed, all will be quite the same. Even the little man on Beacon Hill who doesn't want his friends to read such filth will cry out against corruption by cleverness, or, if he has gone to his ultimate morality, another little man will take his place. So there will be just enough "Hatrackets" to make Boston realize its existence to appreciate its morals. And above the dome of the State House and over the dome of the Mother Church and high above the accordian pleated sincerity of each honest urban heart will smile an unknown god who moves...