Word: jested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Williams' view, life is an insensate jest in which a man is gradually divested of everything that makes life precious, except the gallantry to go on, the one rock-bottom value that Williams never relinquishes. The disenchantment presupposes an initial enchantment. Williams has always lived and preached the creed of the high romantic. The high romantic pushes his hopes, ideals, joys, pleasures and desires past practical limits, past sensible limits and, finally, perhaps past human limits. Like an eternal child, he wants it all and, when he cannot have it all, his heart breaks...