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...writer unwilling to compromise with subject matter of great complexity," the reader is presumably in shape to cope with the first sentence of Wake: "riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodious vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs"-a reference, on one level, to the Liffey, which runs past Adam and Eve's Church and Howth Castle in Dublin, and, on another level, to the beginning of mankind's story. And the reader will be wiser when he reaches the end: "Whish...
...best work yet, the subtle operation of his gentle Irish irony, something of that astringent quality that sharpens the art of his countryman, Painter Willie Orpen, who once painted a swarthy, hawk-faced gypsy basking with his woman and trained bear on the lush, noon-flooded Hill of Howth...
...bring home to you what a man Orpen is for line as well as for clean modeling and Velasquez-like depths of air. Also among the 34 plates are some very fair reproductions of oils unfamiliar to most U. S. enthusiasts-the leer-eyed Gypsies on the Hill of Howth; two allegories that only a slant-headed little faun from the hills could have painted-Sewing New Seed and A Western Wedding...
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