Word: ego
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chief Engineer Spenlove is a garrulous, ironic, goateed alter ego whom William McFee invented in 1920 in Captain Macedoine's Daughter. Last week Mr. Spenlove ambled forth again. As in The Harbourmaster and The Beachcomber, Derelicts is the story of Mr. Spenlove telling a story. The listener is again a rich American woman passenger (this time on a luxury cruise to the West Indies), whose incredible patience really entitles her to be called the story's heroine...
...names as Fargan Hathway, makes a point of quoting Baltasar y Morales Gracián, a 17th Century Spanish Jesuit. Buck Weaver's screwiest activities are occasional booklets he prints at his own expense. He justifies them as outlets for his inhibitions, as surface rashes on his emotional ego. Sample paragraph based on Olive Schreiner story of the "Hunter...
...short, I am to be, if we both can stand the strain necessary to adjustment, the "alter ego" of a human dynamo...
Algiers (Walter Wanger) sets its scene in the bizarre crookedness of Algiers' shuttered, cluttered, labyrinthine native quarter, the Casbah. It is the story of the defeat of a magnificent criminal ego. Whimsical, moody, brutal Pepe le Moko, a jewel thief from Paris, is safe as a fugitive just so long as he stays in the Casbah. Knowing this, patient Policeman Slimane baits him with the thesis that the Casbah itself is his prison, then calmly watches and waits while this disturbing seed takes root. The lure to break prison comes in the shape of an incredibly beautiful woman. When...
...Cummings always spells ego, stands for Nobody. And Nobody is simply anybody who doesn't have delusions that he's Somebody. Consequently he can think of his physical existence in simple terms, can think of death without thinking of taxes, and can think of doom without thinking about bluffing it: god's terrible face, brighter than a spoon, collects the image of one fatal word; so that my life (which liked the sun and the moon) resembles something that has not occurred...