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...John Dos Passes (one of five reviewers in the Saturday Review): "Among the testimonials of the suffering spirit of man I think the book will stand high, somewhere between Dostoevsky's The Possessed and the narratives of the adventures of the light within like Pilgrim's Progress...
...would do anything for Pandora, that Witch of Esperanto, that dare-all and do-all of Las Dos Tortugas. A rich playboy killed himself for her. A famous bullfighter killed someone else, or tried to, for her. But these mere men were...
...money, wagered against them by a group of friends, they must continue to slap each other in the face every ten seconds until 10 a.m. today. The orgy began at that time on Tuesday morning. Since then, the competitors have subsisted on No-Dos, Absorbine Jr. applied by spectators, and whatever food they could manage to cram down...
...Swift & Friends. The best thing about the book is its lack of pretentiousness: Jensen has avoided high-flown speculations about the metaphysics and poetry of flight, has sensibly followed a straight chronological pattern. His opening section mixes solid historical accounts of the infancy of flying with a John Dos Passes dithyramble (from The Big Money) on the Wright brothers, a pleasantly batty story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on an "air jungle" high over Britain, and a tale about Tom Swift taking" his girl up, which opens with the classic line: "Oh, Tom, is it really safe...
...head-over-heels in love with a girl named Lulie, straight from the Midwestern heart of America. " 'Husband,' she said. 'Wife,' he said. The words made them bashful. They clung together against their bashfulness . . . The risen sun over the ocean shone in their faces." Novelist Dos Passos was better when he was angry...