Word: jurgen
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This child who is credited with saying of James Cabell that "Jurgen is his most artistic conception", that "his name is destined to live, to become a classic", this infant who believes American literature a dreary waste and that the "classics" are so much tripe a this pig-tailed mistress of an art most difficult to attain, most demanding, both in skill and experience, justifies the existence of those who, though narrow and crabbed and dogmatic, stick to their guns and send the truths of Aristotelian sanity against the hordes of philanderers in the fields of the liberal arts...
...this continuance of affairs in Poictesme, after the passing of that brave grey rascal, Dom Manuel, from his castle at Storisende, and during the adolescence of Coth's prying young son, Jurgen, is a faintly tiresome recital of disappointments, frustrations, pedantic sorceries and middle-aged bawdinesses among the nine remaining Knights of the Silver Stallion, who disband perforce and go to their destinies as their leader has gone...
Coth of the Rocks, Jurgen's pink, robust, mustachioed parent, goes westward looking for Manuel. He becomes involved with most of the queens and several younger persons on this pilgrimage, but at last manages an interview with his old chief. A western god blows him home-by most Rabelaisian means -to bowse, wench, let the absurd legend of Manuel grow, and to die in his sleep...
...play with a passage of sex double entente that made Jurgen seem stuff for babes. (Pomeroy's Past...
...story in the American Mercury or the dance of that young lady at the Methodist dance? Which is more potent with real danger, the bookstore of, let us say, Felix, or the Old Howard or Gayety? Which are spreading more disgrace and contamination, the issues of "Birth control", "Jurgen". "the Genius", "Hatrack" or the half dozen places which I know right here in Boston (and, which cops around them know...