Word: dreamed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...matter of fact there is no literary resemblance whatever between the anticipatory inventions of the great Frenchman and these fantasies." Wells admits his stories are intended to be only temporarily plausible; "they aim indeed only at the same amount of conviction as one gets in a good gripping dream." Surprisingly, he finds himself much more like Jonathan Swift, says "my early, profound and lifelong admiration for Swift appears again and again in this collection, and it is particularly evident in a predisposition to make the stories reflect upon contemporary political and social discussions." But old Author Wells is rationalizing long...
There began the greatest naval battle of modern times-a battle that for grand strategy surpassed Santiago seven years before, for decisiveness outclassed Jutland eleven years later. It was the kind of battle for which nations and navies build and spend and strive and dream for generations...
...have only to enquire, to conjure up a whole vista of time-coulisses opening out infinitely, as in mockery." But there are records which go back far beyond history's short memory, "pious abbreviations" of real events. "Certainly it becomes clearer and clearer that the dream memory of man, formless but shaping itself ever anew after the manner of sagas, reaches back to catastrophes of vast antiquity, the tradition of which, fed by recurrent but lesser similar events, established itself among various peoples and produced that formation of coulisses which forever lures and leads onwards the traveller in time...
...HAPPY JEW-Nat J. Ferber-Farrar & Rinehart ($2). The Marmelsteins lived in the ghetto of a small Galician town, but Papa Mayer worked away at his grocery, traded and saved, brought up his five sons to look down on their orthodox neighbors. Dream of his life was to get himself and family to the U. S. and its Canaanitish but liberal ways. With every step up they moved a little nearer-Vienna, then Paris. There Sons Moishel and Abraham became Marcel and Armand de Belvedere. Son David-Yusel married a rich and masterful girl, departed for points east. Son Julius...
...with the heat and the sweat of life? They are as a barrel organ beside the still, sad music of humanity. Poe and Hawthorne, the two greatest artists who ever lived in America were driven by the materialism of the actual world about them into neurotic dream universes of their own. Not until boisterous Whitman shouldered across the country shouting his belief in man did literature bear any relation to actuality, and Whitman failed to drive his point home because of his lack of intensity and paucity of ideas...