Word: infirm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...magazine, and last the novel, reached the stage where it is printed, read, and discarded, in an hour, figuratively speaking. D'Alembert once said "Write as if you lived for glory; act as if you were indifferent to it". But D'Alembert was old-fashioned. Now fame, "that last infirmity of noble mind", is becoming more and more infirm. The glory of literature is no more. Literature--can it be that literature itself, in the original sense of the word, is no more? The classics of the future--what of them...