Word: life
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coward's Conversion. In a chapter headed "Shame and Wounded Snobbery," jesting G.B.S. turns dead-solemn and hands out a brand-new episode from his life-a "snob-tragedy" which profoundly influenced him although it caused him such anguish that he was never able to confess it even to his wife...
...Model School, Shaw thinks, that marked him for life. Out of its humiliations, he suddenly conceived "the birth of moral passion." Ignominy made him stand up for the first time ("When I was a boy I was a coward, and bitterly ashamed of it") and passionately demand respect-not only for himself but for his more humble schoolfellows. Humiliation made him a living example of his thesis that "the professional, penniless younger son classes are the revolutionary element in society: the proletariat is the conservative...
...only fun . . . The only moments of happiness I have ever known have been in dream and it was horrible to wake . . . I tell you I'm going to die any day now ... I am tired. It is time I went ... I must go on living because the Life Force is in desperate need of an organ of intelligent consciousness ... Do you think the young are interested in my work? ... I want to be remembered like Mozart and Michelangelo...
Someone else did. And thereby hangs the tale told in Descent into Hell by Charles Williams (TIME, Nov. 8), perhaps the most remarkable English mystical writer since William Blake, a man whose life and work have had strong influence in the religious thinking of such leading British intellectuals as T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, C. S. Lewis and Dorothy Sayers...
Graves burst open. The unquiet dead, in frenzied legions, issued-screaming, backward through time toward life. And the living on Battle Hill became stricken with strange conditions of mind and body. "What is happening to us!" men cried. And one wiser than the rest replied: "One of the vials of the Apocalypse...